1961 CE–1964 CE
Ten territories gain independence in four years
British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency · Law & imperial government · Self-government & Commonwealth · Decolonization & independence
Sierra Leone, Kuwait, Tanganyika, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Malta, and Zambia gained independence through distinct local trajectories. Julius Nyerere, Alexander Bustamante, Eric Williams, Milton Obote, Jomo Kenyatta, Hastings Banda, and Kenneth Kaunda led some governments, but unions, women, farmers, and veterans sustained the movements
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