African Independence

African began going from coloions to country's in 1955. In 1975 more thn 1/2 of african became a country.Between the two world wars, an educated middle class had begun to emerge in African cities. Some African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois as well as by older Africans like Blaise Diagne, who organized Pan-African congresses in 1919 and 1921. One of the movement’s leaders, Leopold Senghor became the first president of Senegal. African soldiers in World War II fought with Europeans to defend freedom. The postwar world changed the thinking of Europeans too. They began to question the cost of maintaining their colonies abroad.