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3 days ago · The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941.
- Italian Guerrilla War in Ethiopia
The Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia was a conflict fought...
- Order of Battle, East African Campaign (World War Ii)
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- Italian Guerrilla War in Ethiopia
1 day ago · Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [7] With 1.4 billion people [1] [2] as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population.
- 46.1/km² (119.4/sq mi) (2021)
- 54+2*+5** (*disputed) (**territories)
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1 day ago · Britain's remaining colonies in Africa, except for Southern Rhodesia, were all granted independence by 1968. British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was not a peaceful process. Kenyan independence was preceded by the eight-year Mau Mau Uprising.
4 days ago · The Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa, or the Conquest of Africa, was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914). The 10 percent of Africa that was under formal European control in 1870 ...
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4 days ago · When the railhead arrived there in 1899, the British colonial capital of Ukamba province was transferred from Machakos (now Masaku) to the site, and in 1905 Nairobi became the capital of the British East Africa Protectorate. From about 1900 onward, when a small Indian bazaar was established at Nairobi, the city was also a trading centre.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · The scramble for African Empire between 1880 and 1913. (Map by Somebody500 using Wikimedia and other sources, Creative Commons) 2023. Brad Faught. Churchill and Africa: Empire, Decolonisation and Race. Barnsley, Yorks. and Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Books, 2023. 188 pages, $39.95, Amazon $23.95, Kindle $29.99.
3 days ago · The meter gauge railway built by British colonialists in East Africa in 1896-1901, emblematic of Western civilization's expansive reach, piped white settlers to the African continent in pursuit of adventure and colonial conquest and witnessed Kenya's awakening process and struggle for independence.
