What happened to African countries in 1930-1970?

African countries during these years fought for their independence. In the 1930s, they failed to achieve anything, on the contrary, the Italians in 1936 occupied Ethiopia for five years. Thus, by the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s, there were very few independent states in Africa – South Africa, Liberia, Ethiopia, Egypt.

Since the 1950s, a rapid struggle for independence began, which coincided with political processes in European countries, for example, the revolution in Portugal led to the fact that its colonies in Africa became independent in 1975 (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde). In some African countries in the 1970s, the white minority (Southern Rhodesia and South Africa) had power, they did not have diplomatic relations with socialist countries.

The USSR helped African countries in the struggle for independence, some of them even became countries of socialist orientation, for example, Mali, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya.