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Africa was subject to imperialism like and other non-Western lands were. The "new imperialsim" (1880 - 1900), as it was called, took place in Africa but also Asia.
During the period before World War I, European nations were scrambling to gain more power and more money through the use of colonies. Most of these were in Africa and Asia, but a few colonies were in South American and the Pacific. Here is a list of the partition of Africa from the years 1885 to 1914; it shows the colonies as they were known then and who rules them:
British
Egypt
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
British East Africa
British Somaliland
Southern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia
Bechuanaland
Orange Free State
British South Africa
Gambia
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
British Gold Coast
French
Algeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast (French West Africa)
French Equitorial Africa
French Somaliland
French Sudan
Madagascar
German
German Kamerun
German East Africa
German South-West Africa
German Togoland
Portuguese
Portuguese West Africa
Portuguese East Africa
Portuguese Cabinda
Portuguese Guinea
Italian
Italian North Africa
Eritrea
Italian Somaliland
Belgian
Belgian Congo
Spanish
Spanish Sahara
Rio De Oro
Rio Muni
Independent Nations
Liberia
Abyssinia (Ethiopia}