Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a west-coastal country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from other countries with “Guinea” in the name and the eponymous region, such as Guinea-Bissau…

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Benin

Benin, officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and formerly known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. This region was referred to as the Slave Coast from as early as the 17th century due to the large number of enslaved people who were shipped to the New World…

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Neukamerun

Neukamerun was the name of Central African territories ceded by the Third French Republic to the German Colonial Empire in 1911. Upon taking office in 1907, Theodor Seitz, governor of Kamerun, advocated the acquisition of territories from the French Congo. Germany’s only major river outlet from its Central African possessions…

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Gambia

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the British colonial administration of the Gambia from 1821 to 1965, part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era. The colony was the immediate area surrounding Bathurst (now Banjul), and the protectorate was the inland territory situated around the Gambia River, which…

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The Gambia

The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. The Gambia shares historical roots with many other West African nations in the slave trade, which was the key factor in the placing and keeping of a colony on the Gambia River, first by the Portuguese,…

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