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Some Key Findings

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Decades of Post Colonial Chaos

"Veni, Vidi, Vici, numquam reliquit - ego adduxit inimici mei !"

Assassinated African Independence Leaders
Between 1961 and 1973, six African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-

colonial rulers,

Patrice Lumumba (Congo)
Amilcar Cabral (Guinea and Cape Verde)

Felixe Moumie (Cameroon)
Mehdi Ben Barka (Morocco)

Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique)

(And the American C.I.A. has been said to have aided plotters who deposed Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.)
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Cold War proxy wars in Africa

The time of African independence coincided with the Cold War between the USA and the

USSR (and other ‘communist’ regimes such as Cuba) and they played out their superpower rivalry in

conflicts in Africa.

Egyptian Revolution (1952)

Suez Crisis (1956)
Congo Crisis (1960)

Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974)
Angolan War of Independence (1961-1974)

Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991)

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963-1974)
Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979)

Mozambican War of Independence (1964-1974)
South African Border War (1966-1990)

superpower rivalry in conflicts in Africa (cont.)

1969 Sudanese coup d'état (1969)

1969 Libyan coup d'état (1969)
1969 Somali coup d'état (1969)