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British settler colonies were founded primarily in South Africa, Southern and Northern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe and Zambia), and South-West Africa (Namibia). Settlers from Holland, Britain, Germany, and Portugal colonized these areas.
The British colonies in Africa included countries such as Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, and Nigeria, among others. Throughout the 20th century, these colonies underwent a process of decolonization, as they sought to gain independence from British rule.
By 1871 Britain had established crown colonies in Gambia, Sierra Leone, Lagos, and at the Cape and Natal provinces in South Africa. England built Fort James at the current site of Banjul on the Gambia River in 1618.
The principal powers involved in the modern colonisation of Africa were Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Italy.
British West Africa, assortment of widely separated territories in western Africa that were administered by Great Britain during the colonial period. These included Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Nigeria (with the British Cameroons), and the Gold Coast (including Gold Coast crown colony, the Asante.
Outlining the spread of British influence throughout Africa from 1875 to 1914.
Learn about the history of British colonies in Africa. Find out how imperialism and how the concept of indirect rule shaped the role of the British Empire in Africa. Updated: 11/21/2023.
In the decades before the First World War, British Africa included protectorates over theoretically sovereign states, a handful of West African coastal enclaves with Crown Colony status, settler colonies, the self-governing dominion of South Africa, and territories governed by anachronistic charter companies that belonged to an earlier imperial ...
Western Africa - British Territories, Colonialism, Decolonization: Each of the four British colonies must necessarily be treated as an independent unit, as each was so treated in British policy.
British East Africa, territories that were formerly under British control in eastern Africa—namely Kenya, Uganda, and Zanzibar and Tanganyika (now Tanzania). British penetration of the area began at Zanzibar in the last quarter of the 19th century.