British Decolonization in Africa

The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War.

British Decolonization in Africa - Students - Britannica Kids

Britain's West African colonies moved swiftly toward independence in the 1950s, progress was slower and more difficult in its East and Central African ...

British Decolonization in Africa, 1963–80 - Students - Britannica Kids

Britain completed its decolonization of East Africa by granting independence to Zanzibar, leaving the island under control of its Arab sultan.

Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 - Office of the Historian

Between 1945 and 1960, three dozen new states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers.

Was British Decolonization after 1945 a Voluntary Process?

In Africa, Britain reluctantly granted independence to its colonial possessions in face of the perceived threat of a Soviet-backed communist ...

The emancipation of sub-Saharan Africa - Decolonisation - CVCE eu

The decolonisation of sub-Saharan Africa was a gradual process. The British colonies were the first to gain independence.

Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa - jstor

Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the ...

Decolonization of the United Kingdom's territories in Africa

The two countries responsible for administering Sudan, the United Kingdom and Egypt, proclaimed its independence on 1 January 1956. This was followed by a long ...

Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa | UCL Discovery

Chris Jeppesen is a historian of twentieth- century Britain and the British empire. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, exploring the ...

Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa - UCL Press

This volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of 'late colonial shift' after 1945.

British Colonies in Africa | Overview, History & Imperial Figures

No, there are no British colonies in Africa. Africa was decolonized in the late 1950s and early 1960s. There, however, remains the voluntary association of the ...

Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa - Project MUSE

'The winds of change are blowing economically': the Labour Party and British overseas development, 1940s–1960s Charlotte Lydia Riley

African Decolonisation Explained - YouTube

... decolonization-in-Southern-Africa https ... British Colonization of Africa | Animated History. The Armchair ...

Britain, France and the decolonization of Africa : future imperfect?

"Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the ...

The Impact of the Second World War on the Decolonization of Africa

Britain discovered that they were not invincible. They saw what a cause or a common goal could do to a nation, and they took African nationalism more seriously.

Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa - Project MUSE

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the vast African empires of Britain and France started to break apart in ways that seemed to defy the ...

The Commonwealth and Southern African Decolonization 1949–1994

The British hoped to avoid a situation 'where we have to take painful decisions on this subject' by devising new forms of government for multi-racial societies.

The Scramble for Africa: A History of Independence - Al Jazeera

In 1960, 17 African nations gained independence from resource-hungry Europe. Others followed soon after.

Politics of Decolonization in French and British West Africa

Caught between their greater need for African resources and diminished power, French and British governments accepted that they had to reform ...

Exporting Britishness: Decolonization in Africa, the British State and ...

The 'decolonization' of a whole raft of institutions from colonial civil services and armies to financial institutions.