african independence

many countries in africa gained theyre independence between the years 1955-1975 in those 20 years more then 25 countries gained theyre independence. most of the countries got theyre independence in the 1960s. africans had several leaders that helped theyre countries be free from european control. leopold senghor was a educated man who read american poetry and listened to jazz music helped free senghol from the europeans by making poems that showed what was going on and the europeans gave them independance. another african movement leader who helped liberate the gold coast was kwame nkrumah he encouraged non violent protests like gandhi. he was educated he was a teacher and he studies in the united states in the 1940s. he would organize strikes and boycotts to fight european control. and was arrested several times but in the end it worked cause the gold coast got its independence and called itself ghana.