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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 ...
The following modifications have been made: Replaced Spanish with English. Removed unused colour key for Italian possessions. Removed country borders outside African continent. Removed Lakes Kariba and Nasser, which did not exist in 1947. Removed exclave of Walvis Bay, which had been incorporated into South West Africa by 1947.
Civilian colonial officials made a special effort to upgrade the African infrastructure, promote agriculture, integrate colonial Africa with the world economy, and recruit over a half million soldiers. [37] [38] Before the war, Britain had made few plans for the utilization of Africa, but it quickly set up command structures.
On December 4, 1920, by a decree of the Colonial Ministry in Paris, Mauritania was officially included in the AOF with the six other French West African territories—Senegal, the French Sudan, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey (present-day Benin), and Niger. [7] The AOF was organized pyramidally under a centralized federal structure in Dakar.
Beijing Legation Quarter (1861–1945) Corn Islands (1914–1971) Canton and Enderbury Islands; Caroline Islands; Cuba (Platt Amendment turned Cuba into a protectorate – until Cuban Revolution) Falkland Islands (1832) Guantánamo Bay; Guam; Gulangyu Island (1903–1945) Haiti (1915–1934) Hawaii; Indian Territory (1834–1907) Isle of Pines ...
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 main point of his argument is that the colonial state in Africa took the form of a bifurcated state, "two forms of power under a single hegemonic authority". [26] The colonial state in Africa was divided into two. One state for the colonial European population and one state for the indigenous population.
Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 until 1961. It was initially administered under a military occupation regime.