At the end of World War II, almost all countries in Africa were still colonial territories with the exception of Egypt, Liberia, Ethiopia and South Africa. Sixty years later, in 2005, nearly all territories became sovereign states based on universal suffrage and are members of the United Nations. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the colonial powers had no intention to relinguish their power to grant independence to their African colonies.
Nevertheless, the world after 1945 had changed more than they were willing to acknowledge on account of at least three things which transformed the geopolitics of the world system -- the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union; the successive independence in Asia and Southeast Asia of the Philippines, the Indian subcontinent, the Indonesia; and the Communist Party's coming to power in China. A wave of nationalism swept through Africa, and by 1960, called the Year of Africa, more than half of Afrcia's nations became sovereign states soon followed by the other half.
(Wallerstein, 2005)
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ReplyDeleteworld war 2 was such a tragic moment. Then again, with a lot of casualties, there was hope. Independent was introduced to the world so that could not been a bad thing, wouldn't it now?
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