When Western countries colonized Africa, which countries in Africa were colonized by European countries?

They are the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

1. France’s colonies include: Benin, C?te d’Ivoire, Comoros, Djibouti, Algeria, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Tunisia, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Central Africa.

2. The British colonies include: South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, Gambia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, British Somalia, Swahili Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Uganda, Zambia.

3. Germany’s colonies include: Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, Burundi, and Rwanda.

4. Belgium only has one colony in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but this colony covers 2.35 million square kilometers.

5. Italy’s colonies are: Eritrea, Libya, and Italian Somalia.

6. Portugal’s colonies are: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe.

7. Spain’s colonies are: Western Sahara, Equatorial Guinea, the northern coastal area of ??Morocco and a small area in the south.

Extended information:

The British way of ruling the colonies was different from colonial countries such as France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the German Empire, Italy and Belgium. France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and other countries adopted the method of direct rule, tried their best to integrate the colonies with the mother country politically and economically, and vigorously instilled the culture and lifestyle of the mother country.

In order to assimilate as many Africans as possible, or at least to make the dominated nation closely identify with the ruling nation. Local social institutions and customs are barely preserved, and local languages ??are rarely used in the education system.

The main purpose of these policies is to make the educated class in colonial countries (usually the local upper-class wealthy class) feel that their destiny is closely related to the mother country, and to abandon the indigenous way of life. This approach led to divisions among the colonial people, who were often unable to maintain political stability after independence.

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