Year of Africa
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1960 is known as the Year of Africa.
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[edit] Granted independence in 1960 from France
- Mauritania
- Mali Federation (split into Mali and Senegal on August 20)
- Gabon
- Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Upper Volta (renamed to Burkina Faso in 1984)
- Niger
- Dahomey (renamed to Benin in 1975)
- Madagascar
- Togo (formerly French Togoland)
- Cameroon (formerly Cameroun, unification with the British Cameroons in 1961)
[edit] Granted independence in 1960 from the United Kingdom.
- Somalia (through the unification of British Somaliland and the Trust Territory of Somalia)
- Nigeria
[edit] Granted independence in 1960 from Belgium
- Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (formerly the Belgian Congo)
1960 was also the year of Harold Macmillan's Wind of Change speech in South Africa, which represented an admission by the British political elite that the British Empire was over and could not be revived. This inspired a reaction from the Empire Loyalist wing of the Conservative Party; see Conservative Monday Club.
[edit] External links
- 1960: The Year of Africa, CBC News, June 8, 2010
- Special Links Independence of African Countries. In: Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa (ilissAfrica).
