Decolonising Africa (TRIH ep 100)
1960 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook talk with guest Tomiwa Owolade about African decolonisation, opening with Frantz Fanon's role and writings (notably The Wretched of the Earth). They survey the uneven pace of independence across the continent — Ghana's 1957 breakthrough under Kwame Nkrumah, the earlier exits of Tunisia and Morocco, and the long continuities of European rule — and the differing colonial models used by Britain, France and Belgium.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1960
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)