Friday, April 18, 2008

Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid


Apartheid was a policy that segregated the Black and the other natives from the White that lived there. Nelson Mandela was hero for Africa because he changed the ways everyone, mostly the Natives were treated in Africa made boycotts and other riots just like Gandhi in India in order to get their countries independence. This took years and eventually Mandela was elected president and got Independence for Africa

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

African Independence


Some of the Leaders that lead Africa was Leopold Senghor he was politican that worte poetry that made everyone see why africa needed a independence. There was also are fight in Algeria were the poeple didn't want to give up their land without a fight. Many people people died in order to gain the African Independence. It helped get rid all of the Coloines in Africa.