Decolonisation of Africa

Table columns:
Country[a]
Colonial name
Colonial power[b]
Independence date[c]
First head of state[d]
Independence won through

Table rows:
cells: Liberia
Liberia
United States
26 July 1847[e]
Joseph Jenkins Roberts[f]
Liberian Declaration of Independence
cells: South Africa[g]
Cape Colony  Colony of Natal  Orange River Colony  Transvaal Colony
United Kingdom
31 May 1910[h]
Louis Botha
South Africa Act 1909
cells: Egypt[i]
Sultanate of Egypt
28 February 1922[j]
Fuad I[k]
Egyptian revolution of 1919
cells: Eritrea
Italian Eritrea
Italy[l]
10 February 1947[m]
Haile Selassie[n]
-
cells: Libya[o]
British Military Administration[p]  Military Territory of Fezzan-Ghadames
United Kingdom  France
24 December 1951
Idris
-
cells: Sudan
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
United Kingdom[q]  Republic of Egypt
1 January 1956
Ismail al-Azhari
-
cells: Tunisia[r]
French Protectorate of Tunisia
France
20 March 1956
Muhammad VIII al-Amin Habib Bourguiba
-[s]
cells: Morocco
French Protectorate in Morocco  Tangier International Zone  Spanish Protectorate in Morocco  Spanish West Africa Ifni
France  Spain
2 March 1956[t] 7 April 1956 10 April 1958 4 January 1969
Mohammed V
Ifni War
cells: Ghana[u]
Gold Coast
United Kingdom
6 March 1957[v]
Kwame Nkrumah[w]
Gold Coast legislative election, 1956
cells: Guinea
French West Africa
France
2 October 1958
Sékou Touré
Guinean constitutional referendum, 1958
cells: Cameroon
French Cameroons
France
1 January 1960[x]
Ahmadou Ahidjo
-[y]
cells: Togo
French Togoland
France
27 April 1960
Sylvanus Olympio
-
cells: Mali
French West Africa
20 June 1960[z]
Modibo Keita
-
cells: Senegal
Léopold Senghor
-
cells: Madagascar[aa]
French Madagascar
26 June 1960
Philibert Tsiranana
-[ab]
cells: Democratic Republic of the Congo[ac]
Belgian Congo
Belgium
30 June 1960
Patrice Lumumba[ad]
Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference[ae]
cells: Somalia[af]
British Somaliland  Trust Territory of Somaliland
United Kingdom  Italy
26 June 1960 1 July 1960[ag]
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
-
cells: Benin[ah]
French West Africa
France
1 August 1960
Hubert Maga
-
cells: Niger
3 August 1960
Hamani Diori
-
cells: Burkina Faso[ai]
5 August 1960
Maurice Yaméogo
-
cells: Ivory Coast
7 August 1960
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
-
cells: Chad
French Equatorial Africa
11 August 1960
François Tombalbaye
-
cells: Central African Republic
13 August 1960
David Dacko
-
cells: Republic of the Congo
15 August 1960
Fulbert Youlou
-
cells: Gabon
17 August 1960
Léon M'ba
-
cells: Nigeria
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria  British Cameroons
United Kingdom
1 October 1960 1 June 1961 1 October 1961[aj]
Nnamdi Azikiwe
-
cells: Mauritania
French Equatorial Africa
France
28 November 1960
Moktar Ould Daddah
-
cells: Sierra Leone
Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone
United Kingdom
27 April 1961
Milton Margai
-
cells: Tanganyika[ak]
Tanganyika Territory
9 December 1961
Julius Nyerere
-
cells: Burundi[al]
Ruanda-Urundi
Belgium
1 July 1962
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi
-
cells: Rwanda
Grégoire Kayibanda
Rwandan Revolution
cells: Algeria
French Algeria
France
5 July 1962
Ahmed Ben Bella[am]
Algerian War
cells: Uganda
Protectorate of Uganda
United Kingdom
9 October 1962
Milton Obote
-
cells: Kenya
Colony and Protectorate of Kenya
12 December 1963[an]
Jomo Kenyatta[w]
-[ao]
cells: Sultanate of Zanzibar[ak]
Sultanate of Zanzibar
10 December 1963
Jamshid bin Abdullah
-[ap]
cells: Malawi
Nyasaland
6 July 1964[aq]
Hastings Banda[w]
-
cells: Zambia
Northern Rhodesia
24 October 1964
Kenneth Kaunda
-
cells: The Gambia
Gambia Colony and Protectorate
18 February 1965[ar]
Dawda Jawara[w]
-
cells: Rhodesia  Zimbabwe
Southern Rhodesia
11 November 1965 17 April 1980[as]
Ian Smith Robert Mugabe
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence Lancaster House Agreement
cells: Botswana
Bechuanaland Protectorate
30 September 1966[at]
Seretse Khama
-
cells: Lesotho
Territory of Basutoland
4 October 1966
Leabua Jonathan[au]
-
cells: Mauritius
Mauritius
12 March 1968
Veerasamy Ringadoo
-
cells: Swaziland
Swaziland
6 September 1968
Sobhuza II
-
cells: Equatorial Guinea
Spanish Territories of the Gulf of Guinea
Spain
12 October 1968
Francisco Macías Nguema
-
cells: Guinea-Bissau
Overseas Province of Guinea
Portugal
10 September 1974[av]
Luís Cabral
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
cells: Mozambique[aw]
State of Mozambique
25 June 1975
Samora Machel
Mozambican War of Independence
cells: Cape Verde
Overseas Province of Cape Verde
5 July 1975
Aristides Pereira[ax]
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence[ay]
cells: Comoros
French Comoros
France
6 July 1975
Ahmed Abdallah
Comorian independence referendum, 1974
cells: São Tomé and Príncipe
Overseas Province of São Tomé and Príncipe
Portugal
12 July 1975
Manuel Pinto da Costa
-
cells: Angola[az]
State of Angola
11 November 1975
Agostinho Neto
Angolan War of Independence
cells: Seychelles
Seychelles
United Kingdom
29 June 1976
James Richard Marie Mancham
-
cells: Djibouti
French Territory of the Afars and the Issas
France
27 June 1977
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Afars and Issas independence referendum, 1977
cells: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[ba]
Spanish Sahara Southern Provinces
Spain  Morocco
27 February 1976 independence not yet effectuated
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed Mohamed Abdelaziz
Western Sahara War Western Sahara conflict

Questions about this table:
originalText: when did the last african country gained independence
answer: answerTexts: 27 June 1977