Africa Decolonization Timeline

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
Mail 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.

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