Country Independence Date Prior ruling country

Liberia 26 July 1987 Britain

South Africa 31 May 1910 Britain

Egypt 28 February 1922 Britain

Ethiopia 5 May 1941 Italy

Libya 24 December 1951 Britain

Sudan 1 January 1956 Britain/Egypt

Morocco 2 March 1956 France 2

Tunisia 20 March 1956 France

Ghana 6 March 1957 Britain

Guinea 2 October 1958 France

Cameroon 1 January 1960 France

Senegal 4 April 1960 France

Togo 27 April 1960 France

Mali 22 September 1960 France

Madagascar 26 June 1960 France

Congo(kinshasha) 30 June 1960 Belgium

Somalia 1 July 1960 Britain

Benin 1 August 1960 France

Niger 3 August 1960 France

Burkina faso 5 August 1960 France

Cote d'ivoire 7 August 1960 France

Chad 11 August 1960 France

Central African Republic 13 August 1960 France

Congo(Brazzaville) 15 August 1960 France

Gabon 17 August 1960 France

Nigeria 1 October 1960 Britain


Mauritania 28 November 1960 France

Sierra Leone 27 April 1961 Britain

Tanzania 9 December 1961 Britain

Burundi 1 July 1962 Belgium

Rwanda 1 July 1962 Belgium

Algeria 3 July 1962 France

Uganda 9 October 1962 Britain

Kenya 12 December 1963 Britain

Malawi 6 July 1964 Britain

Zambia 24 October 1964 Britain

Gambia 18 February 1965 Britain

Botswana 30 September 1966 Britain

Lesotho 4 October 1966 Britain

Mauritius 12 March 1968 Britain

Swaziland 6 September 1968 Britain

Equatorial Guinea 12 October 1968 Spain

Guinea-Bissau 24 September Portugal

Mozambique 25 June 1975 Portugal

Cape Verde 5 July 1975 Portugal

Comoros 6 July 1975 France

Sao Tome and Principe 12 July 1975 Portugal

Angola 11 November 1975 Portugal

Western Sahara 28 February 1976 Spain

Seychelles 29 June 1976 Britain

Djibouti 27 June 1976 Britain

Zimbabwe 18 April 1980 Britain

Namibia 21 March 1990 South Africa

Eritrea 24 May 1993 Ethiopia


http://africanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/blIndependenceTime.htm

cc. lalasticlala ishilove

Things like this are meant to be on FP, many will learn from it.

Op what happen to the rest countries without date and colonial masters?? They are still under captivity??

Fp stuff

i taught liberia got her independence from USA?

how is Sudan (Britain/Egypt)?
And I thought it's more than one Sudan now...

western sahara from Spain,I thought only equatorial Guinea was colonised by Spain in Africa and western sahara was claimed by Morocco


ahhh! I think say I be Don for geography before oo,e Dun tay jare...gotta go back learning about my africa

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seun
lalasticlala

so south Africa even grow to d level of colonizing other Africans am seeing dis for d first time, are ma research on dis.

nice work Borussia but there are a few corrections

Ethiopia was never colonized instead they defeated Italy during Italy's quest for colonization; only Eritrea which was previously part of Ethiopia was under Italian rule in late 1800s. Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia, Eritrea later fought for independence from Ethiopia.

Liberia got its independence from USA on 26 July 1847.

Western Sahara is officially not independent. Spain relinquished its colonial power on Western Sahara in 1975 after UN resolution. Morocco and Mauritania both claim the western Sahara as its territory due to historical ties. Algeria opposes the claim of Morocco and Mauritania by sponsoring their drive for independence.

So south Africa is an elder brother to Nigeria. Little wonder they are punishing them.

Why do people say South Africa became independent in 1994?

I remember wondering about that because I've always known South Africa to be independent.

https://www.quora.com/When-did-South-Africa-gained-independence-How-did-they-accomplish-it

So, according to this quora question, South Africa began democracy in 1994, which I guess is considered the date (maybe informal) of independence?

mekonglobal:
so south Africa even grow to d level of colonizing other Africans am seeing dis for d first time, are ma research on dis.

South Africa was a British colony then so they hold the British power. It’s just as saying Britain colonize Namibia but it’s just administered under South Africa.

So SA in that context is not the blacks but the British.