Decolonization of Africa · TURNING POINT ·
Inauguration of Nelson Mandela (1994)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Pretoria — the inauguration”
10 May 1994 — Nelson Mandela is sworn in at the Union Buildings as South Africa’s first democratically elected president, jets of the old regime dipping their wings overhead. The map of a free Africa is complete.
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- End of apartheid (chapter 11 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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