African Independence

The Africans were slaves to Europe for a while. What had happened was the different nations in Europe came over in Africa and took over the land, they set up there own political boundaries. They went to there land to get resources to take back to Europe to sell back. It was like a big source of income. For example Cecil Rhodes took over what is now called Zimbabwe and he named it Rhodesia. He used Africans as slaves to get elephants tusks and rubber trees to make rubber. When world war II finsh the British were going to set up a government in Africa but later it was costing too much money to keep on coming back and fort. Controlling the country was being expensive so they gave Africa there Independence.