List of African territories and states by date of colonization explained

This is a list of the dates when African states were made colonies or protectorates of European powers and lost their independence.

List

Name	Year	Colonial power
	1912	France^[1]
	1911	Italy^[2]
	1903	France and the United Kingdom
	1902	United Kingdom^[3]
	1900	United Kingdom
	1893	Germany^[4]
	1911	United Kingdom
	1897	United Kingdom
	1899	United Kingdom
	1894	France
	1894	Germany^[5]
	1894	France
	1893	United Kingdom
	1892	United Kingdom
	1885	United Kingdom
	1885	France
	1879	United Kingdom
	1874	United Kingdom
	1868	United Kingdom
	1881	France
	1843	France
	1830	France^[6]
	1503	Portugal
	1861	United Kingdom^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Moroccan Nationalist Movement and its Anticolonial Activism from 1925 to 1944 .
2. Web site: Bodetti . Austin . 2021-11-01 . Italy's Little-Known Colonial Legacy in Libya and Somalia . 2022-08-04 . Inside Arabia . en-US.
3. Web site: Eswatini - Colonial administration Britannica . 2022-08-04 . www.britannica.com . en.
4. Web site: Burundi South African History Online . 2022-08-04 . www.sahistory.org.za.
5. Web site: CORRESPONDENT . Michael Coard TRIBUNE . '94 Rwanda massacre exposes Europe's murderous African colonization . 2022-08-04 . The Philadelphia Tribune . en.
6. Web site: Tognina . Andrea . Swiss in Algeria: decolonisation in a country without colonies . 2022-08-04 . SWI swissinfo.ch . en.
7. Web site: 2020-09-11 . About Nigeria - Nigeria High Commission . 2022-08-04 . nigeria.org.my . en-US.