Colonization of Africa

Africa was subject to imperialism like and other non-Western lands were. The "new imperialsim" (1880 - 1900), as it was called, took place in Africa but also Asia.

During the period before World War I, European nations were scrambling to gain more power and more money through the use of colonies. Most of these were in Africa and Asia, but a few colonies were in South American and the Pacific. Here is a list of the partition of Africa from the years 1885 to 1914; it shows the colonies as they were known then and who rules them:

British

Egypt
[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]?
[British East Africa]?
[British Somaliland]?
Rhodesia
Bechuanaland?
[Orange Free State]?
[Union of South Africa]?
Gambia
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
[Gold Coast]?


French

Algeria
Morocco
[French West Africa]?
[French Equitorial Africa]?
Gabon
[French Somaliland]?
Madagascar


German

Cameroon
[German East Africa]?
[German Southwest Africa]?
Togo


Portuguese

Angola
Mozambique
Cabinda?
[Portuguese Guinea]?


Italian

Libya
Eritrea
[Italian Somaliland]?


Belgian

[Belgian Congo]?


Spanish

[Spanish Morocco]?
[Rio De Oro]?
[Rio Muni]?


Independent Nations
Liberia
Abyssinia (Ethiopia}