Choose an African nation that had to become independent from European colonialism. What was their process toward independence like? What took place? Who led them to independence? What happened afterward? Please describe the personalities and events of your chosen nation.

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.