The colonial history of Africa spans from colonial period until the postcolonial period in the history of Africa. By the 1850s, British and German missionaries...
The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French...
government and media is the one used by a recent colonial power, though most people speak their native African languages. In ancient times, people from Southern...
social-economic development of nations within sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS in post-colonialAfrica is a prevalent issue. Although the continent is home to about...
important place it has in their cultures. As such, most of African history predating the colonial period has been preserved orally, passed down from generation...
pressure to construct a colonial empire until the Scramble for Africa in 1884. Claiming much of the remaining uncolonized areas of Africa, Germany built the...
The colonial roots of gender inequality refers to the political, educational, and economic inequalities between men and women in Africa. According to...
decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War. Colonial governments...
rule. With the decline of the European colonial empires in the wake of both world wars, most of their African possessions achieved independence during...
Africa, surrounding nations, and mainland Portugal. The prevalent Portuguese and international historical approach considers the Portuguese Colonial War...
colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded in Africa...
for Africa, an early but secondary focus for most colonial regimes was the suppression of slavery and the slave trade. By the end of the colonial period...
of education in Africa can be roughly divided into pre- and post- colonial periods. Since the introduction of formal education to Africa by European colonists...
continental Africa, yet succeeded only in connecting colonial North Africa (Cairo) with the colonial south of Africa (Cape Town). Upon arriving to Africa, Europeans...
during the colonial period. There were many causes for the decline and abolition of slavery in Africa during the colonial period including colonial abolition...
French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal...
French Equatorial Africa (French: Afrique équatoriale française, or AEF) was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted...
under European colonial rule during the 19th and 20th centuries and was loosely inspired by nationalist ideas from Europe. Originally, African nationalism...
African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...
century onwards, as European colonial powers introduced their own monetary system into the countries they invaded. As African countries achieved restoration...
process that had the ultimate consequence of commodifying land in colonialAfrica. Land distribution thus emerged as an extremely contentious issue in...
immigration of African Americans to Maryland in Africa, and supported agriculture and trade. He had begun his career working as the colonial secretary for...
African empires is an umbrella term used in African studies to refer to a number of pre-colonialAfrican kingdoms in Africa with multinational structures...
Monarchy was the prevalent form of government in the history of Africa, where self-governing states, territories, or nations existed in which supreme power...
people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of Africancolonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book...
armies of the European colonial powers in Africa, particularly in the African Great Lakes, Northeast Africa and Central Africa. The word is used in this...
Germany also built their colonial empires in Africa. The chart below[original research?] shows the span of some European colonial empires. Black lines mark...