The oldest reason in the world: land equals power. I guess you are right but colonizations was mainly due to greed.When gold or diamonds was discovered imperial powers was already half way there.South Africa is a good example,2 x wars were fought over gold in South Africa.Lesser causes were strategic importance (shipping),procurement of labor(slaves),produce ect.
Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Cameroon, and Sierra Leone; Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar); South Africa, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Nyasaland (Malawi), Lesotho, Botswana, and Swaziland. The Sudan, formerly known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, was jointly ruled by Egypt and Britain.
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Gold Coast
British Somaliland
British Nigeria
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Uganda Protectorate
Kenya Colony
Nyasaland
North Rhodesia
Gambia
Bechuana Protectorate
Swaziland
Southern Rhodesia
Please note: The UK controlled other colonies that they took over from other nations, as well. These are just the colonies that the UK founded themselves.
Sudan, Egypt, Union of South Africa, and Zimbabwe, to name a few.
The rest are on this map: http://www.africainstitute.com/map_colonization.html
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English Tangier (1661-1684)
Among the European countries that established their own colonies in Africa were Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. While some countries (including France, Spain, and Portugal) had colonized parts of Africa as far back as the 1500s, the majority of the colonization by the European powers occurred in the mid-to late 1800s. To a certain extent, the Dutch were apart of this colonization as they formed a group of other Europeans who settled in what was South Africa. They were called Afrikaners.
Ethiopia
Canada was colonized by France and England.
I believe that the two countries are the dutch and the french.This is true as the Dutch (from Holland or the Netherlands) colonized South Africa and probably some other countries on the African continent. The French (France) colonized the Ivory Coast, now called the Cote d'Ivoir.
Britain
South Africa was colonized in the main by people from Holland, Great Britain, and France.Holland and Britain set up governments and colonised actively. France only had influence through immigration of about 1000 of French Hugenots, religious refugees.
The French culture, the french language and religion in Africa are some lasting results in France of having colonized countries in Africa.
Britain
Most European countries colonised various parts of the world at one time or another. Principally Britain; France; Spain & Portugal, they established Empires in Asia, Afirica & the Americas. Virtually all of Africa & South America were dominated by European powers.
great britain was the country that colonized australia
Basically all except Ethiopia.
CAR - France Kenya - Britain South Africa has always been independent although Lesotho and Swaziland was colonized by Britain