which african country was not colonised by the british?
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Countries in Africa Considered Never Colonized. Alistair Boddy-Evans is a teacher and African history scholar with more than 25 years of experience. There are two countries in Africa that are considered by some scholars to never have been colonized: Liberia and Ethiopia.
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But as the length of some resistance struggles amply demonstrates, Africans put up the best resistance with the resources they had. By 1900 much of Africa had been colonized by seven European powers—Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
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It was not that European powers were not interested in colonizing Ethiopia-they were! Ethiopia was able to resist attempts of colonization by the British and particularly by the Italians.
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Landlocked Countries in Africa Africa has 16 landlocked countries: Botswana, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, South Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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1. Seychelles - 97,000. Seychelles is the least populated country in Africa, with a population of only 97,000 people.
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Of the 32 countries without letter A in their name, 12 are in Africa. These countries include Benin, Burundi, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Lesotho, Morocco, Niger, Seychelles, and Togo.
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The fledgling nation, which is also one of the world's poorest countries, became a member of the United Nations on July 14 and joined the African Union on July 28. Neither of the two countries that have most recently joined the Commonwealth, Rwanda and Mozambique, have colonial links to Britain.
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Which African country is not a monarchy? Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in Northwest Africa, covering 165,000 square kilometres (64,000 square miles).
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['Algeria.', 'Angola.', 'Benin.', 'Botswana.', 'Burkina Faso.', 'Burundi.', 'Cabo Verde.', 'Cameroon.']
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Botswana and Lesotho were independent in 1966; Swaziland and Mauritius in 1968; and the Seychelles in 1976. In 1965 Rhodesia's white-minority government unilaterally proclaimed independence, which was not recognized by Britain or other countries.
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In the 1500s, Portugal colonized the present-day west African country of Guinea-Bissau and the two southern African countries of Angola and Mozambique. The Portuguese enslaved many people from these countries and sent them to the New World.
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['Morocco - 1912, to France.', 'Libya - 1911, to Italy.', 'Fulani Empire - 1903, to France and the United Kingdom.', 'Swaziland - 1902, to the United Kingdom.', 'Ashanti Confederacy - 1900, to the United Kingdom.', 'Burundi - 1899, to Germany.', 'Kingdom of Benin - 1897, to the United Kingdom.', 'Bunyoro - 1897, to the United Kingdom.']
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['ALGERIA.', 'CHAD.', 'IVORY COAST.', 'EGYPT.', 'GHANA.', 'KENYA.', 'LIBYA.', 'MALI.']
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Take Ethiopia, the only sub-Saharan African country that was never colonized. "Quite a few historians attribute that to the fact that it has been a state for a while," says Hariri.
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Of the nearly 200 countries out there, the Brits have invaded all but 22. That is just about 90% of all countries! Mongolia, the Ivory Coast, Bolivia and Sweden are among the selective group of making it to 2013 without a British invasion. Here is the map showing where (pink) the British have invaded.
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['South Africa.', 'Malawi.', 'Zimbabwe.', 'Zambia.', 'Seychelles.']
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There are two countries in Africa that are considered by some scholars to never have been colonized: Liberia and Ethiopia. The truth, however, is much more complex and open to debate.