Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is just like Segregation, except the only difference is that instead of it being in America, it was in South Africa, not the whole country. Apartheid was a very serious issue and lasted from 1948 to 1994. It pretty much gave whites rights and prevented non-white people from having rights and experiencing freedom. Nelson Mendela is on of those people who would try to get freedom from the oppressors of his country. He tried doing violent revolts, only to cause himself to be put in jail for starting an uprising. There were many groups of people that would try to stop apartheid because they felt that it was wrong to be doing segregation to African people.

African Independence

During the times after World War 2, The Africans started to really pursue independence. To do this they would have to rebel against the Europeans, but the Europeans were actually thinking of how they were going to give the country back to the people. The reason why is because after World War 2, they needed money to repair the country. This made them think, how much money is used to control these colonies that we have in Africa. They started the Negritude movement. This caused a lot of revolutions because of the fact that the European rulers had treated them so harshly. This was one of the main reasons for the revolution, the other main reason was because they wanted their independence. They started by letting more African people be able to be in the government. This wasn't a big enough change, so they rebelled, also known as the Kenya and the Mau Mau rebellion. The English had seized farmland that was really important, so they decided to take it back by means of fighting. The leader of this Kenyan rebellion was a guy named Jomo Kenyatta. Mau Mau decided that in order to gain control of the high lands, they must try to scare them off because he didn't want to start an all out war that he was probably going to use.