And so he was a major promoter of the idea of Pan-Africanism. Now, the independence movements only accelerated as we go into the 1960s. 1960 in particular was a year of many independence movements, but you can see here most of Africa was independent as we exit the 1960s. In blue here listed the French colonies that gained independence in this time period. In this salmon color, the British colonies. And in yellow, the Belgian colonies. There would continue to be change over the next few decades, but the world starts to look very similar to the world as we recognize it today.