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Year 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 ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
The Scramble for Africa: the White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (13th ed.). London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-10449-2. Phillips, Anne. The enigma of colonialism : British policy in West Africa (1989) Online
This is a list of territories and polities that have been ... French Southern and Antarctic Lands Contemporary illustration of Major Marchand's trek across Africa in ...
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 ]
Central African Empire: 1976 1979 3 Chagatai Khanate: 1225: 1687: 462 Chahamanas of Shakambhari: 551: 1194: 643 Chalukya Dynasty: 543: 753: 210 Chenla: 550: 802: 252 Chera Dynasty: 300 BC: 1124: 1424 Chimor: 900: 1470: 570 Chola Empire: 848: 1279: 431 Classical Athens: 508 BC: 322 BC: 186 Comanche Empire (debated) 1750 1850 100 Commonwealth of ...
Many countries followed in the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in 1960 with the Year of Africa, which saw 17 African nations declare independence, including a large part of French West Africa. Most of the remaining countries gained independence throughout the 1960s, although some colonizers (Portugal in particular) were reluctant to relinquish ...
In World War I there were several campaigns in Africa, including the Togoland Campaign, the Kamerun campaign, the South West Africa campaign, and the East African campaign. In each, Allied forces, primarily British, but also French, Belgian, South African, and Portuguese, sought to force the Germans out of their African colonies.