African Independence

According to the map, the area for africa was once composed of mainly colonies and later on in 1975, africa was divided into independent countries. This was obviously due to British rule in 1955. Africa was divided into colonies so that the materials found in those areas could be divided among the british settlers there. As time went on, Africa became less controlled by the British, rulers such as Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, and Mau Mau all fought for independence. The fruit of their activites is the map of africa in 1975 which is shown next to that of the map of afica under british rule