Russia is the one of biggest Empire in the world and still maintain the largest land mass till date but never had any colonies in any part of Africa unlike other European who scramble to acquire what is left of Africa and almost went to war on a property that wasn’t their own. The British quest to block the Russia from expanding southward into India led to their Great Game plan which played out well, that’s if Russians ever intended to expand southward at the first place. There have some claims that Russia came late to colonization more like that Germans but could they be right or wrong, well that’s what we are about to find out, the reasons why Russia didn’t have any Africa colonies.

Though I would like to note that Russia may not have had any colonies in Africa but they expanded westward and eastward, also neo-colonized their neighbor so they shouldn’t be clear from the list of imperialist and blood thirsty colonialist.

The reasons why the Russian never had colonies in Africa could be credited to either one or both of the points below:

While the Portuguese, British, French and Spanish etc were on their way to acquire land far from home and across the seas and oceans discovering new lands and people to trade the Russians were .....................................................................

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Africa no get wetin dem dey look for.

donbachi:
Africa no get wetin dem dey look for.

Maybe

They had as soviet union
When soviet union collapsed, thatis why poland, ukraine, serbia, chenchen and other balkan countries quickly got independence and some of them quickly joined nato and the eu