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West African Lamine Gueye elected to French National Assembly.
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National Party wins South Africa's post-war election.
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Guinea and Ghana - first territories of French
and British West Africa to launch successful independence movements.
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Mau Mau uprising against British rule in Kenya.
Egypt's King Farouk abdicates.
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Algerian War begins.
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Suez Crisis.
Sudan's independence brings few benefits for the South.
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Ghana becomes first sub-Saharan country to gain independence in post-war era
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Sobukwe becomes first president of Pan Africanist Congress.
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