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.