Post- colonial Africa and Asia

Mandela was a South African nationalist leader who was taken to trial for sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of his country. He was in prison for 27 years, and was released from prison in 1990. When he was released from prison four years later in 1994, South Africa held his first election in which blacks and white were able to vote, and he became the first black African president. Mandela wanted to free the African from the whites, the whites wanted to keep controlling which was unfair for the Africans who wanted to start a new life.

At the end of the twentieth century the end of the european empires seemed as something natural. It was like everyone knew that it was going to happen at any time. Many where predicting that it would happen and the idea that the only legitimate government is self-government. With the fall of the european colonial empires new nation-states became to rise.  During this time millions of people decided to join Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns, many went on strikes and others joined political parties. Gandhi was a person who believed in avoiding any violence, but I think that during that time they had to gain independence no matter what way even if they had to be violent or not. Gandhi also opposed many things like modern industrial future.