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The following is a list of European colonies in Africa, organized alphabetically by the colonizing country. France had the most colonies in Africa with 35 colonies followed by Britain with 32. [ 1 ]
France [1] Libya: 1911 Italy [2] Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3] Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 United Kingdom: Burundi: 1893 Germany [4] Nri Kingdom: 1911 United Kingdom: Kingdom of Benin: 1897 United Kingdom: Bunyoro: 1899 United Kingdom: Dahomey: 1894 France: Rwanda: 1894 Germany [5] Oubangui ...
Toggle Colonies by African countries subsection. 5.1 Ethiopian. 5.2 South African. 5.3 Moroccan. ... List of former European colonies; List of Israeli settlements;
European colonial powers sought natural resources in African colonies and needed the requisite labor force to extract them and simultaneously build the colonial city around these industries. Because Europeans viewed native bodies as degenerate and in need of taming, violence was necessary to create a submissive laborer. [ 28 ]
This is a list of former European colonies. The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: United Kingdom (130), France (90), Portugal (52), Spain (44), Netherlands (29), Germany (20), Russia (17), Denmark (9), Sweden (8), Italy (7), Norway (6), Belgium (3), and Courland (2).
Italian colonisation in Africa (5 C, 22 P) M. ... Works set in colonial Africa (4 C, 1 P) ... List of European colonies in Africa; Loango slavery harbour; M.
Between 1885 and 1914, Britain took nearly 30% of Africa's population under its control; 15% for France, 11% for Portugal, 9% for Germany, 7% for Belgium and 1% for Italy. [ citation needed ] Nigeria alone contributed 15 million subjects, more than in the whole of French West Africa or the entire German colonial empire.
French West Africa (22 C, 149 P) G. German East Africa (4 C, 8 P) German South West Africa (10 C, ... Pages in category "Former colonies in Africa"