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Turning point · The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — The Year of Africa in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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