Skilled speakers such as Kwame Nkrumah in the Gold Coast, Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya, and Léopold Senghor in Sengal led independence movements in their countries. Such political pressure was enough to win independece in the British colonies that became Nigeria and Ghana, and in France's many Western African colonies.
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World War II brought colonialism to a halt as the European powers were not able to focus their efforts towards stifling the rising nationalism movements in Africa and around the world (Vietnam, India, etc...).
Most countries gained independence by negotiation and agreement with colonial powers. The main exceptions were the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau because the fascist Dictatorship in Lisbon wanted to maintain its absolute control of those countries.
they gained independence one way was to tell the french to take their fancy technology back to France
Interference by the U.S. and revolts in Africa forced the europeans out. Like the revolt in South Africa to release nelson Mandela and the whites lost power
Some countries just decided it was not worth it to put up a fight about it, that's all.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia LIBERIA is Africa's first independent republic, not Ethiopia. MONROVIA is Africa's first independent capital. The first answer is correct. Ethiopia has always been independent (apart from a brief Italian occupation before the Second World War).
Ethiopia is the oldest independent nation in Africa. It has existed in some form since 980 B.C. It was an empire in 1137.
south africa
South Africa
Liberia