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| 1962 |
| | | The former British colony of Uganda becomes an independent republic, with Milton Obote as prime minister | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Zanzibar becomes an independent nation and a member of the Commonwealth | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Hastings Banda is prime minister of the newly independent nation of Malawi, formerly Nyasaland | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Kenneth Kaunda becomes president of the independent republic of Zambia, previously Northern Rhodesia | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The Gambia becomes an independent member of the Commonwealth, with Dawda Jawara as prime minister | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US marines intervene in civil war in the Dominican Republic to prevent a communist takeover | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Former chief Seretse Khama becomes the first president of an independent Botswana | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Portuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as president | |
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