Decolonization of Africa · TURNING POINT ·
Independence of Nigeria (1960)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Lagos — Nigeria at midnight”
1 Oct 1960 — The most populous nation in Africa — a federation of three regions and 250 peoples — lowers the Union Jack. Its scale makes it the continent’s great federal experiment, and its deepest fault line.
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- Year of Africa (chapter 5 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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