... the Muslim Berbers who lived there. The Algerians resisted, often violently. The French finally withdrew from the colony in 1962 after the Algerians voted 6,000,000 to 16,000 to ask the French to leave. The End of Colonialism Colonialism ended surprisingly quickly and quietly in most of Africa after World War II. The British granted Gold Coast independence in 1957. The indigenous government of the ... spears were no match for the Europeans' guns. The Boers enslaved many of the Bantus and forced them to work on the colonists' farms. Great Britain assumed control of South Africa in 1795, a...

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