Can you name the empires that these African countries gained independence from ( * if there are two empires)? by Melchett

Country/Territory	Empire	Year
Algeria		1962
Angola		1975
Benin		1960
Botswana		1966
Burkina Faso		1960
Burundi		1962
Cameroon*		1960
Cape Verde		1975
Central African Republic		1960
Chad		1960
Comoros		1975
Cote d'Ivoire		1960
Democratic Republic of the Congo		1960
Djibouti		1977
Egypt		1922
Equatorial Guinea		1968
Eritrea		1993
Ethiopia (during WW2)		1945
Gabon		1960
(The) Gambia		1965
Ghana		1957
Guinea		1958
Guinea-Bissau		1974
Kenya		1963
Lesotho		1966
Liberia		1847
Libya		1951

Country/Territory	Empire	Year
Madagascar		1960
Malawi		1964
Mali		1960
Mauritania		1960
Mauritius		1968
Morocco*		1956
Mozambique		1975
Namibia		1990
Niger		1960
Nigeria		1960
Republic of the Congo		1960
Rwanda		1962
Sao Tome and Principe		1975
Senegal		1960
Seychelles		1976
Sierra Leone		1961
Somalia*		1960
South Africa		1931
Sudan		1956
Swaziland		1968
Tanzania		1961
Togo		1960
Tunisia		1956
Uganda		1962
Zambia		1964
Zimbabwe		1980

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Colonial Rule in Africa Quiz

by Melchett

Created Oct 12, 2009 in History
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	SoSoSmart:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 14:21 GMT	8 points
	For the "British Empire" answers, "UK, Great Britain, United Kingdom" don't work. I think you should really change that.

	swellwrench:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 14:41 GMT	3 points
	neither "British and Italian" nor "Italian and British" work for Somalia

	Booger:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 14:59 GMT	5 points
	This is a great idea for a quiz and one that is well done overall. Let me humbly suggest that you make the change SoSoSmart suggests and that for each of the countries with two colonial powers that you either (1) accept one for both; (2) make two separate entries; or (3) that you indicate with an asterisk or in some other fashion that there are two colonial powers. Finally, I'm not sure what the reason is for putting these in random order. Alphabetical or chronological order would make more sense.

	Melchett:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 15:50 GMT	4 points
	Thanks for the help and tips all. Ill fix that straight away.

	ffi:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 16:48 GMT	5 points
	It would be interesting to put Namibia in here and see whether people know that it declared independence from South Africa. Good quiz.

	SoSoSmart:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT	6 points
	Namibia was also German Southwest Africa until it was taken control of by South Africa in 1915.

	Melchett:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 16:58 GMT	4 points
	Yeah, I left out Liberia, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Namibia because its a bit sketchy about how to "classify" them. I guess I'll give them a go though.

	johnlk:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 20:26 GMT	2 points
	Most of them did not "declare independence." I'd suggest changing the wording. Namibia should be "South Africa," though.

	andrea:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 22:13 GMT	2 points
	I missed all of the "two empires" because I didn't realize you needed to enter both at once until too late; I couldn't figure out why "Spain" wasn't working for Morocco. You might want to indicate that in the directions.

	PublicEnemy:	Oct 13th, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	3 points
	lol guessing UK, France, Belgium or Portugal every time got me 46

	Gordo:	Oct 13th, 2009 at 03:38 GMT	13 points
	Liberia didn't really gain independence from the United States, it was simply founded by ex-slaves from the US. The US never controlled or occupied or claimed the land.

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	papercrab:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 02:11 GMT	2 points
	There's some confusion based on the "declared independence" and "empires" language. Namibia for example was originally German, then British/South African. You're not accepting German for it. The same (or similar) goes for Cameroon, Eritrea, Tanzania, Togo, etc.

	Dommel:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 11:02 GMT	2 points
	@papercrab: I think the key is that the quiz is about which country they gained independance from, and not who historically have controlled them. Good quiz, some were quite difficult. As a bonus, you could include the Netherlands for South Africa because some parts were independant before being conquered by the british (Orange Free State, Transvaal), though it might be arguable that they didn't gain independance from anyone but created their own states).

	abanazerb:	Apr 11th, 2010 at 10:20 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz.

	Chipmunkdavis:	May 7th, 2010 at 12:43 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz. But ethiopia and south africa aren't empires. The USA did not ever control Liberia. Liberia was always an independent states.

	Shay:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 13:41 GMT	1 point
	Tanzania didn't gain independence from anyone in 1961 - it was formed as the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964 (which gained their independence in 1961 and 1963 respectively).

	johnlk:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 18:47 GMT	3 points
	I believe that technically Sudan was an Egyptian-British condominium before 1956, and Egypt was certainly an independent country after 1936, so perhaps Egypt and UK should be the answer there. Of course, we'll soon have to add South Sudan...

	emma2323:	Mar 13th, 2011 at 01:27 GMT	2 points
	good quiz. you can tell that the * threw some people off because they are among the least guessed answers on the quiz.

	Korenkiewicz:	May 13th, 2011 at 22:41 GMT	1 point
	Just keep typing Britain and France and you will get most of the answers.