Decolonisation in the 20th Century wasn’t always a great success. Over a million people were slaughtered in communal violence when India and Pakistan finally became independent nations in 1947. Nigeria became independent in 1960 and, six years later, a civil war commenced in which as many as 2 million citizens were killed or starved to death.
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