Political Resistance
African countries started to question the authority of the Europeans.
Rebellions
Brutality
Violent Rebellions
Students
White Government
Students were attacked but it made them more determined to create their own destiny in South Africa. The students were constantly beaten and arrested. The Soweto uprising was a great example of this, as students got together and boycotted.
White officials would beat and arrest and sometimes kill innocent protesters and boycotters.
Sékou Touré
First president of the Republic of Guinea (1958-1984).
Only former French colony that chose immediate independence rather than continuing relations with France.
Guinea was a former French colony, but thanks to Touré, they resisted and gained independence in 1958, the same year Touré became president.
Peaceful Rebellions
Guerrilla warfare like the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960)
Zimbabwe's war for independence (1965-1979)
All-out war in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau (1961–74), and the South African colony of South West Africa (Namibia)
People of South Africa protested in streets to overwhelm resources of apartheid regime.
The Soweto uprising of 1976 was a huge protest. African students boycotted schools on the streets because they didn't want to speak in Afrikaans, the unjust language of the white population.
"We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery."
No military confrontations in South Africa, rather spontaneous guerrilla attacks on apartheid government.
Led to students being beaten, arrested, and killed.