Monday, April 30, 2007

African Independence

During 1955 and 1975, Africa has changed very much during those inspirational years. With people like W. E. B. Du Bois (Influenced many African Americans) , Blaise Diagne (Has lead and organized the pan - African congress in 1919 and 1921) , Leopold Senghor (Was a legendary politician and also a poet) , Kwame Nkrumah (A teacher who studied in the United States and represented something similar to what Gandhi had which was Civil Disobedience) , and so much more. Anyway, one of the major achievements that has changed Africa was gaining independence and changing the Gold Coast's (A place where Nkrumah has worked and also liberated this place from the British) name to Ghana. (This special name honored a west African kingdom known from the past.) He tried and later on did modernise Ghana into a new piece of art, changing everything. A few years had past since that time and there was something else called the Kenya and the Mau Maurebellion. Basically, the British had taken over parts of Kenya and strong leaders such as Jomo Kenyatta, and the Mau Mau (A secret organization of Kikuyu farmers) had been forced to rebel against them. Some of their tactics were to scare the white farmers, refusing any of the British commands, and so on. The effect of this however, was the imprisonment and the killings of these people. Now I guess the last person I could talk about is

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