The colonisation of Africa has a long history, the most prominent being Western colonization from the 19th century to the 20th century, when every part of the continent was colonized at least once. The modern colonial period began ending in the 1950s and fully ended by the 1970s, when power was given to independent states.
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“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)