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The six principal colonies of German Africa, along with native kingdoms and polities, were the legal precedents of the modern states of Burundi, Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Togo. Chad , Gabon , Ghana , Kenya , Uganda , Mozambique , Angola , Nigeria , Central African Republic and Republic of the Congo were also under the control of ...
The first to go was Togoland to the British and to the French. Germany's colonies put up a stout fight but by 1916 Germany lost most of its colonies, except German East Africa, where a German force of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck held out against the Allies until the end of the war.
German colonies in Africa, 1914. The following were German African protectorates: Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916; German South West Africa, 1884–1915; German West Africa, 1884–1915 Togoland, 1884–1916; Kamerun, from 1884–1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885–1918
Local groups in German East Africa resisted German enforced labour and taxation. In the Abushiri revolt , the Germans were almost driven out of the area in 1888. [ 13 ] A decade later the colony seemed conquered, though, "It had been a long-drawn-out struggle and inland administration centres were in reality little more than a series of small ...
The following were German African protectorates: German colonies in Africa, 1914. German South West Africa, 1884 to 1915; German West Africa, 1884 to 1915 Togoland, 1884 to 1916; Kamerun, from 1884 to 1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884 to 1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 to October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885 to 1918; Witu Protectorate, 1885 ...
Name 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 ...
Togoland (part of German West Africa), Kamerun (another discontiguous part of German West Africa), German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), and; German East Africa (now Tanzania, etc). (The limits of the areas of control may not be perfectly accurate due to the imprecision of the reference maps.)
German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 [1] until 1915, [2] though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.