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Events relating to africa
Egypt controls the Gaza Strip area of Palestine at the end of the Arab-Israeli war
Radical young members, including Nelson Mandela, take control of the ANC
Soweto begins to be built outside Johannesburg to segregate the city's black labour force
The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman
John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story
Libya wins independence from Italy, as a kingdom with Idris I as head of state
A decision by the United Nations makes Eritrea an autonomous federal province within Ethiopia
Kwame Nkrumah, recently released from gaol, becomes prime minister of the British colony of the Gold Coast
A group of officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser depose Egypt's king, Farouk, and send him into exile
Ahmed Ben Bella forms the Front de Libération National (FLN) to fight for Algerian independence
An outbreak of terrorism in Kenya is orchestrated by a secret Kikuyu organization, the Mau Mau
Jomo Kenyatta, charged with having organized the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, is sentenced to seven years in prison
South African author Nadine Gordimer publishes her first novel, The Lying Days
The two Rhodesias and Nyasaland are merged in the self-governing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
A radical manifesto and acts of terrorism alert the world to the emergence of the FLN, committed to independence for Algeria
Gamal Abd al-Nasser mounts another coup, this time against his colleague Mohammed Neguib, to make himself president of Egypt
Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood
An armed uprising in Morocco persuades France to accept the principle of independence for the colony
Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia
Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south
The Sudan, declining the opportunity of union with Egypt, opts for independence as a separate state
Tunisia wins independence from France, with Habib Bourguiba as prime minister
French Morocco and Spanish Morocco win independence from the two colonial powers
After a plebiscite British Togo is merged with the neighbouring colony of the Gold Coast
The USA and Britain withdraw their offer of financial aid for Nasser's Aswan dam
