decolonization of africa
timeline
Table:
Country[3]

Colonial name

Colonial power[4]

Independence date[5]

First head of state

Independence won through

Liberia

Commonwealth of Liberia

American Colonization Society

July 26, 1847

Joseph Jenkins Roberts

Liberian Declaration of Independence

Ethiopia

Italian East Africa

Italy; United Kingdom

19 December 1944

Haile Selassie I

Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement

Libya

Italian Libya; Allied Military Administration

Italy; United Kingdom/France

December 24, 1951

King Idris I

Western Desert Campaign

Egypt

British Egypt

United Kingdom

1922/1936/1952[6]

Sarwat Pasha, Farouk,

1952 Egyptian revolution[6]

Sudan

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

United Kingdom[9]

1 January 1956

Ismail al-Azhari

Condominium ended

Tunisia

French protectorate of Tunisia

France

March 20, 1956

Muhammad VIII al-Amin

-

Morocco

Protectorate of Morocco

France & Spain

April 7, 1956[10]

Mohammed V

Rif War, Ifni War

Ghana

Gold Coast

United Kingdom & Germany;[11] Britain

March 6, 1957

Kwame Nkrumah

-

Guinea

French Guinea (part of French West Africa)

France

October 2, 1958

Sékou Touré

-

Cameroon

Cameroun

Germany; France & United Kingdom

January 1, 1960[12]

Ahmadou Ahidjo

UPC rebellion

Togo

French Togoland

Germany; France

April 27, 1960

Sylvanus Olympio

-

Mali

French Sudan (part of French West Africa)

France

June 20, 1960[13]

Modibo Keita

-

Senegal

part of French West Africa

France

June 20, 1960[13]

Léopold Senghor

-

Madagascar

Malagasy Protectorate

France

June 26, 1960

Philibert Tsiranana

Malagasy Uprising

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Belgian Congo

Belgium

June 30, 1960

Patrice Lumumba

Congo Crisis

Somalia[14]

British Somaliland
Italian Somaliland

United Kingdom
Italy

June 26, 1960
July 1, 1960

Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar

-
-

Benin

French Dahomey (part of French West Africa)

France

August 1, 1960[15]

Hubert Maga

-

Niger

Colony of Niger (part of French West Africa)

France

August 3, 1960

Hamani Diori

-

Burkina Faso

French Upper Volta (part of French West Africa)

France

August 5, 1960

Maurice Yaméogo

-

Côte d'Ivoire

Ivory Coast (part of French West Africa)

France

August 7, 1960

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

-

Chad

French Chad (part of French Equatorial Africa)

France

August 11, 1960

François Tombalbaye

-

Central African Republic

Ubangi-Shari (part of French Equatorial Africa)

France

August 13, 1960

David Dacko

-

Republic of the Congo

French Congo (part of French Equatorial Africa)

France

August 15, 1960

Fulbert Youlou

-

Gabon

part of French Equatorial Africa

France

August 17, 1960

Léon M'ba

Nigeria

British Nigeria

United Kingdom

October 1, 1960 [16]

Nnamdi Azikiwe

-

Mauritania

part of French West Africa

France

November 28, 1960

Moktar Ould Daddah

-

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

United Kingdom

April 27, 1961

Milton Margai

-

South Africa

Union of South Africa

United Kingdom

1910/1931/1961[17]

James Barry Munnik Hertzog

-

Tanzania[18]

Tanganyika
Zanzibar

Germany; United Kingdom
United Kingdom

December 9, 1961
December 10, 1963

Julius Nyerere
Jamshid ibn Abdullah

-
-

Rwanda

part of Ruanda-Urundi

Germany; Belgium

July 1, 1962

Grégoire Kayibanda

- [19]

Burundi

part of Ruanda-Urundi

Germany; Belgium

July 1, 1962

André Muhirwa

-

Algeria

French Algeria

France

July 3, 1962

Ahmed Ben Bella

Algerian War of Independence

Uganda

Uganda Protectorate

United Kingdom

October 9, 1962

Milton Obote

-

Kenya

Kenya Colony

United Kingdom

December 12, 1963

Jomo Kenyatta

Mau Mau Uprising

Malawi

Nyasaland Protectorate

United Kingdom

July 6, 1964

Hastings Kamuzu Banda

-

Zambia

Northern Rhodesia

United Kingdom

October 24, 1964

Kenneth Kaunda

-

The Gambia

Gambia

United Kingdom

February 18, 1965

Dawda Kairaba Jawara

-

Botswana

Bechuanaland Protectorate

United Kingdom

September 30, 1966

Seretse Khama

-

Lesotho

Basutoland

United Kingdom

October 4, 1966

Leabua Jonathan

-

Namibia

South West Africa

Germany; South Africa

October 27, 1966[20]

Sam Nujoma

Namibian War of Independence

Mauritius

United Kingdom

March 12, 1968

-

Swaziland

Swaziland

United Kingdom

September 6, 1968

Sobhuza II

-

Equatorial Guinea

Spanish Guinea

Spain

October 12, 1968

Francisco Macías Nguema

-

Guinea-Bissau

Portuguese Guinea

Portugal

September 24, 1973

Luís Cabral

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence/Portuguese Colonial War

Mozambique

Portuguese East Africa

Portugal

June 25, 1975

Samora Machel

Mozambican War of Independence/Portuguese Colonial War

Cape Verde

Portugal

July 5, 1975

influenced by Guinea-Bissau War of Independence

Comoros

French Madagascar, French Comoros

France, Madagascar

July 6, 1975

-

São Tomé and Príncipe

Portugal

July 12, 1975

-

Angola

Portuguese West Africa

Portugal

November 11, 1975

Agostinho Neto

Angolan War of Independence/Portuguese Colonial War

Seychelles

United Kingdom

June 29, 1976

James Richard Marie Mancham

-

Djibouti

French Somaliland

France

June 27, 1977

Hassan Gouled Aptidon

-

Zimbabwe

Southern Rhodesia

United Kingdom

April 18, 1980[21]

Canaan Banana

Lancaster House Agreement

Eritrea

Eritrea

Italy; Britain; Ethiopia

May 24, 1993

Isaias Afewerki(incumbent)

Eritrean War of Independence

South Sudan

Southern Sudan

United Kingdom; Sudan

July 9, 2011

Salva Kiir Mayardit

Sudanese Civil War

Sahrawi Republic[23]

Spanish Sahara;
Moroccan Sahara

Spain;
Morocco

February 27, 1976;
Independence not effectuated over most of the territory

El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed;
Mohamed Abdelaziz

Western Sahara War;
Saharawi Intifada

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