MAPS OF HISTORY · The Decolonization of Africa · ALL CHAPTERS · DEC 1961
The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994 · THE MAP IN DEC 1961
DEC 1961 — Sierra Leone & Tanganyika
WHAT CHANGES ON THE MAP
| Sierra Leone | British-ruled → Independent Africa |
| Tanzania | British-ruled → Independent Africa |
ON THE GROUND
- liberation war, then internationalized civil war
- Eritrea’s thirty-year war of independence, 1961–91
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