Al Jazeera Documentaries

Africa: States of independence - The scramble for Africa (2010x1)

Air date: Sep 02, 2010

Seventeen African nations gained their independence in 1960, but the dreams of the independence era were short-lived. Africa states of independence tells the story of some of those countries - stories of mass exploitation, of the ecstasy of independence and of how - with liberation - a new, covert scramble for resources was born.