(12-11-2019, 08:10 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: Many African countries became independent around 1960. Sign of a successfully finished Crisis? Or rather an "Awakening"? Because the time afterwards wasn't exactly a High.
North of the Sahara in what is part of the 'Arab World' 1960 was approximately the time when their last Crisis ended, which featured revolutions in many countries and Algerian War of Independence which was very much a Crisis 'Total War'.
However, if I am right about Sub-Saharan Africa saeculum, then Decolonization was a Awakening to Unraveling phenomenon. Indeed, the political situation throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa became more unstable, not more stable in the 1960s. However it became more stable in the 1990s. Come to think of it there was a lot of turbulence in the 1980s and early 1990s Sub-Saharan, not just the Anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. You had the Rwandan genocide in 1994 was well and the mood in Sub-Saharan Africa was quite dark in that period as well. In this decade interestingly enough the mood in Sub-Saharan Africa has been pretty optimistic, at times euphoric, in-spite of the many problems which plague Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the culture is increasingly becoming passionate, with institution being under attack. That is certainly the case in both Uganda and South Africa (a television show called The Big Debate portrays such a societal mood).
Indecently, South Africans see the Anti-Apartheid struggle as the equivalent of World War II for America, their Generation of 1976 are held in very high regard for the sacrifices they made to overthrow Apartheid. Also, the coming of Democracy in 1994 is seen as a watershed moment like the end of World War II is for us.