Take your pick:
Germany had its East African holdings in particular.
Belgium held dominion over the Congo.
Great Britain had famously had Cape Colony, including Natal and eventually Zululand as well as the Orange Free States.
France controlled almost all of North Africa.
Spain, Italy, and Portugal likewise had their own holdings.
In fact, by the turn of the start of WWI, there were only two independent countries in all of Africa: Liberia and Ethiopia.
The colonies were governed either directly or indirectly by the mother country, protected by the mother country, and the monarchs were leaders of the colonies.
Liberia. (Since the 1970's there haven't been any Colonies in West Africa, though).
The Portuguese planted the first maritime colonies in Africa. The Dutch planted the first settled colonies in Africa. A maritime colony is a port city and some surrounding territory, but it is not terribly expansive. (Hong Kong until 1999 would be a good example.) A settled colony is a more typical colony type of which the 13 colonies that became the United States would be a good example.
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There are no more colonies in Africa. The last one (Southern Rhodesia) became independent from the United Kingdom in 1980. The nation that had the largest colonies in terms of land mass was France.
European Colonies
i think it is Britain
Britain
There were no colonies in Africa in 1993. The last Colony became independent in 1980. (Rhodesia, UK)
The United Kingdom
The colonies were governed either directly or indirectly by the mother country, protected by the mother country, and the monarchs were leaders of the colonies.
liberia
the citizens of the 13 colonies.
Portugal
The colonies of Africa and Asia belonged to the nations fighting WWI. Naturally, those colonies aided their mother country on the path to Victory. Also, some colonies (such as German Tanganyika) had soldiers stationed in the region. They fought and invaded their enemy's colonies and colonial forces.
The country was Africa :)
The UN.