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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: Hogweard: Permission (Reusing this file)
Germany became the third-largest colonial power in Africa, the location of most of its 2.6 million square kilometres of colonial territory and 14 million colonial subjects in 1914. The African possessions were Southwest Africa, Togoland, the Cameroons, and Tanganyika. Germany tried to isolate France in 1905 with the First Moroccan Crisis.
When the Ottoman Empire entered the war in November 1914, the British colonial authorities in British East Africa became apprehensive of attacks from the Muslims of Ethiopia and Somaliland but none transpired until 1916, when trouble also broke out in some Muslim units of the Indian Army stationed in East Africa, including desertions and self ...
Southern Rhodesia, highlighted in red on a map of Africa in 1914; other British possessions in pink. At the time of World War I (also known as the First World War or the Great War), Southern Rhodesia [n 1] was administered by the British South Africa Company, which had controlled it and Northern Rhodesia since acquiring them through diplomacy and conquest during the 1890s.
By 1914, Tanganyika was divided into 22 administrative districts, and only two of them were still ruled by soldiers. [6] The chief characteristic of German rule was the power and autonomy of the district officer; sheer lack of communication dictated this.
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.
The fighting in East Africa led to an export boom in British East Africa and an increase in the political influence of White Kenyans. In 1914, the Kenyan economy was in decline but because of emergency legislation giving white colonists control over black-owned land in 1915, exports rose from £3.35 million to £5.9 million by 1916.
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