A large group of Africans had acquired enough education to enable them articulate their demands more forcefully and understand political development in other parts of the world.
The Africans who took part in the Second World War discovered that that Europeans were not superior to them. They were also frustrated that only the white soldiers were rewarded.
The Independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 encouraged the nationalist to fight with renewed vigour in the knowledge that success was possible.
The Atlantic Charter signed in 1941 between Churchill and Roosevelt declared that all people had the right to self-determination.
The 1945 Manchester Conference reinforced the spirit of Pan-Africanism and called for self-determination for all black people.
The Labour Party came to power after the Second World War with a new attitude which was sympathetic to decolonisation.
The emergency of the United States of America and the Soviet Union as super powers and their encouragement for decolonisation.
The Second World War had left the European powers financially weak and they were unwilling to spend large sums of money fighting African resistance.
The United Nations, which was formed in 1945, called for grating of independence as a step towards the achievement of international peace.
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