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British
Great Britain desired a Cape-to-Cairo collection of colonies and almost succeeded through their control of Egypt, Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), Uganda, Kenya (British East Africa), South Africa, and Zambia, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and Botswana. The British also controlled Nigeria and Ghana (Gold Coast). -
Germany
Now controls the rights to Namibia, Cameroon, Togo and, in East Africa, Tanganyika. -
Revolts
Revolts in Algeria, in the western Sudan, in Dahomey, by the Matabele (Ndebele) and Shona, in Ashantiland, in Sierra Leone, and in the Fulani Hausa states were eventually defeated. -
King Leopold II and Belgium
Belgium and King Leopold II controlled the Democratic Republic of Congo (Belgian Congo). -
France
France took much of western Africa, from Mauritania to Chad (French West Africa) and Gabon and the Republic of Congo (French Equatorial Africa). -
France
France takes Madagascar. -
Portugal
Portugal took Mozambique in the east and Angola in the west. -
Germany
Germans drive 50,000 of the Herero people of Namibia into the desert to die. -
France
The French gain control of Morocco. -
Ethiopia
Ethiopia is recognized as independent.