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Of Belgium's other colonies, the most significant was Ruanda-Urundi, a portion of German East Africa, which was given to Belgium as a League of Nations Mandate, when Germany lost all of its colonies at the end of World War I. Following the Rwandan Revolution, the mandate became the independent states of Burundi and Rwanda in 1962. [2]
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 ]
English: Map showing the European colonial empires in Africa in 1939. Belgian colonial empire . British colonial empire . French colonial empire .
Colonial power Morocco: 1912 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 ...
Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State; Congo–Arab war; Congo Conference on colonization of Africa (1884) Congo Free State; E. En 50 ans; G.
The Scramble for Africa [a] was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century in the era of "New Imperialism": Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Works set in colonial Africa (4 C, ... Belgian colonisation in Africa (3 C, 21 P) British colonisation in Africa (2 C, 49 P) C. Colonial history of Cameroon (4 C, 2 P) D.
German colonies were originally meant to preserve their neutrality as mandated in the Berlin Convention, but fighting soon broke out on the frontier between German East Africa and the Belgian Congo around Lakes Kivu and Tanganyika. [2] As part of the Allied East African campaign, Ruanda and Urundi were invaded by a Belgian force in 1916. [2]