Which African Country First Gain Independence..,? Politics The first independent country in Africa was Ethiopia. It was always independent from before Biblical times to the present with the exception for a brief period preceding World War 2 when the Italians drove the Ethiopian Army back from the capital and it became a guerilla force. But, the answer you are looking for is: Ghana became the first African State to achieve independence from colonial rule in 1957. Liberia was actually the first independent country. But, South Africa only gained independence in 1961. In 1910 South Africa created a UNION of all the provinces, but was still under the British Commonwealth until 1961 when we aquired sovereignity. 1847 Liberia 1951 Egypt 1956 Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco 1957 Ghana 1958 Guinea 1960 Chad, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Togo, Zaire, Somalia, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon 1961 Sierra Leone, South Africa (recognized as the Republic of South Africa, the indigenous people (Black Africans), were living under apartheid, and thus not truly independent) 1962 Algeria, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda 1963 Kenya, Tanzania 1964 Malawi, Zambia 1965 Gambia 1966 Botswana, Lesotho 1968 Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Swaziland 1969 Guinea-Bissau, Libya 1975 Angola, Cape Verde, Comoros, Mozambique, Sao Tome 1976 Seychelles 1977 Djibouti 1980 Zimbabwe 1990 Namibia 1993 Eritrea ipoaa/african_independence.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sove...
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