Long description

This is an outline map of Africa, colour-coded to show the territories controlled by seven European colonial powers in 1914. The map indicates that the British and French were the dominant colonial powers. British-controlled areas – coloured green – included much of southern Africa, including South Africa, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, as well as Egypt, Sudan and British East Africa in the north east and Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria in the west. France controlled much of inland and coastal north-west Africa – coloured yellow – as well as French Equatorial Africa and the island of Madagascar. Germany controlled Kamerun in the west, South West Africa and German East Africa. Portugal controlled Angola on the south-west coast, Mozambique in the south east and Portuguese Guinea on the far north-west coast. Italy controlled Libya on the north coast and Eritrea and part of Somaliland on the east. Spain controlled small territories on the north-west coast, including Rio del Oro. And finally, Belgium controlled the large area of the Congo in inland central Africa. The state of Liberia and the Empire of Ethiopia were independent.