| Country | Year |
Colonizer |
|
South Africa |
1910 |
U.K. |
| Egypt | 1922 | U.K. |
| EthiopiaOriginally not colonized but occupied by Italy in 1936 | 1941 | Italy |
| Libya | 1951 | U.K. |
| Sudan | 1956 | U.K./Egypt |
| Morocco | 1956 | France |
| Tunisia | 1956 | France |
| Ghana | 1957 | U.K. |
| Guinea | 1958 | France |
| Cameroon | 1960 | France |
| Senegal | 1960 | France |
| Togo | 1960 | France |
| 1960 | France | |
| Madagascar | 1960 | France |
| Congo (Kinshasa( | 1960 | Belgium |
| Somalia | 1960 | Britain |
| Benin | 1960 | France |
| Niger | 1960 | France |
| Burkina Faso | 1960 | France |
| Cote d’Ivoire | 1960 | France |
| Chad | 1960 | France |
| Central Africa Republic | 1960 | France |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | 1960 | France |
| Gabon | 1960 | France |
| Nigeria | 1960 | U.K. |
| Mauritania | 1960 | France |
| Sierra Leon | 1961 | U.K. |
| Tanzania | 1961 | U.K. |
| Burundi | 1962 | Belgium |
| Rwanda | 1962 | Belgium |
| Algeria | 1962 | France |
| Uganda | 1963 | U.K. |
| Kenya | 1963 | U.K. |
| Malawi | 1964 | U.K. |
| Zambia | 1964 | U.K. |
| Gambia | 1965 | U.K. |
| Botswana | 1966 | U.K. |
| Lesotho | 1966 | U.K. |
| Mauritius | 1968 | U.K. |
| Swaziland | 1968 | U.K. |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1968 | Spain |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1973 | Portugal |
| Mozambique | 1975 | Portugal |
| Cape Verde | 1975 | Portugal |
| Comoros | 1975 | France |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 1975 | Portugal |
| Angola | 1975 | Portugal |
| Western Sahara | 1976 | Spain |
| Seychelles | 1976 | U.K. |
| Djibouti | 1977 | France |
| Zimbabwe | 1980 | U.K. |
| Namibia | 1990 | South Africa |
| Eritrea | 1993 |
Ethiopia |
Please note that this timeline is largely about European colonization of African countries in the 19th century; we have not included the Ottoman occupation of North Africa in an earlier era.