independence from the british colony
There were a great many countries that never were under British control. There were even more that were not a British colony before they were declared independent. On the great continent of Africa there is only one. That would be Ethiopia.
Kenya was a British colony until gaining independence in 1963.
Unlike most African countries, Ethiopia was never a European colony, for this reason it has been important to modern Africa as a symbol of independence
There were a great many countries that never were under British control. There were even more that were not a British colony before they were declared independent. On the great continent of Africa there is only one. That would be Ethiopia.
Yes.
The last country to give up it's African colony was actually the African country of South Africa. The colony that it had dominion over was the country of Namibia. This occurred in 1990.
Ghana the first African nation south of the Sahara to win freedom was the british colony of gold coast. during the 1940s, Kwame Nkrumah organized a movement for independence from Britain. In 1957, Gold Coast finally won independence.
Yes, before independence, it was Northern Rhodesia.
Zambia was Northern Rhodesia, a British colony.
Canada.
The first British colony in West Africa was Sierra Leone, established in 1787. It became the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence after World War II, achieving this status on April 27, 1961. Sierra Leone's independence was significant as it marked a turning point in the decolonization process across Africa.