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  2. Scramble for Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    European territories in Africa, 1914, following the Scramble for Africa. Satirical drawing: "The modern civilization of Europeː France in Morocco & England in Egypt", A.H. Zaki, 1908-1914 Africa was the target of the third wave of European colonialism, after that of the Americas and Asia. [ 54 ]

  4. Colonisation of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Some of these endured for centuries; however, popular parlance of colonialism in Africa usually focuses on the European conquests of African states and societies in the Scramble for Africa (1884–1914) during the age of New Imperialism, followed by gradual decolonisation after World War II.

  5. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    French West Africa (Stanford UP, 1958). Wellington, Donald C. French East India companies: A historical account and record of trade (Hamilton Books, 2006) Wesseling, H.L. and Arnold J. Pomerans. Divide and rule: The partition of Africa, 1880–1914 (Praeger, 1996.) Wesseling, H.L. The European Colonial Empires: 1815–1919 (Routledge, 2015).

  6. Decolonisation of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.

  7. Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880–1914 - Wikipedia

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    Written from the perspective of European imperial historians, Wesseling's study focuses on those European individuals, their motives, actions and tactics in Africa between 1880 and 1914. Simultaneously, the author examines in detail the various treaties and agreements entered by European nations resulting from their scramble for territory in ...

  8. Anglo-Zanzibar War - Wikipedia

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    The islands of Zanzibar and the African mainland. Zanzibar was an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Tanganyika; today it forms part of Tanzania.The main island, Unguja (or Zanzibar Island), had been under the nominal control of the Sultans of Oman since 1698 when they expelled the Portuguese settlers who had claimed it in 1499. [5]

  9. File:Africa map 1914.svg - Wikipedia

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    A map of Africa in 1914, with colours for the sovereign powers: Date: 10 December 2023: Source: Africa map 1935.svg: Author: ... Scramble for Africa; User:Falcaorib ...