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Coming attractions: Ethiopia {Gadling}
Dec 11th 2009 3:07AM The same can be said about Ethiopia in the light of your response to my comment:
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eracolonialism/tp/AfricaNotColon.htm
There are two countries in Africa which are considered to never have been colonized. The truth, however, is much more complex and open to debate.
1. Liberia
Liberia was a colony for just over 17 years before partial independence was achieved through the declaration of a commonwealth (4 April 1839). True independence was declared eight years later on 26 July 1847.
The American Society for Colonization of Free People of Color of the United States (known simply as the American Colonization Society, ACS) created the Cape Mesurado Colony on the Grain Coast on 15 December 1821. This was further expanded into the Colony of Liberia on 15 August 1824. The ACS was a society initially run by white Americans who believed there was no place for Free Blacks in the US. Its administration was later taken over by Free Blacks.
2. Ethiopia
In the 1880s Italy failed to take Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then known) as a colony. On 3 October 1935 Mussolini ordered a new invasion and on 9 May the following year Abyssinia was annexed by Italy. On 1 June the country was merged with Eritrea and Italian Somalia to form Africa Orientale Italiana (AOI - Italian East Africa).
Emperor Haile Selassie made an impassioned appeal to the League of Nations on 30 June 1936, gaining support from the US and Russia. But many League of Nations members, including Britain and France, recognized Italian colonization.
It was not until 5 May 1941, when Selassie was restored to the Ethiopian throne, that independence was regained.
Coming attractions: Ethiopia {Gadling}
Dec 11th 2009 2:47AM The same can be said of Ethiopia in the light of what you said above:
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eracolonialism/tp/AfricaNotColon.htm:
In the 1880s Italy failed to take Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then known) as a colony. On 3 October 1935 Mussolini ordered a new invasion and on 9 May the following year Abyssinia was annexed by Italy. On 1 June the country was merged with Eritrea and Italian Somalia to form Africa Orientale Italiana (AOI - Italian East Africa).
Emperor Haile Selassie made an impassioned appeal to the League of Nations on 30 June 1936, gaining support from the US and Russia. But many League of Nations members, including Britain and France, recognized Italian colonization.
It was not until 5 May 1941, when Selassie was restored to the Ethiopian throne, that independence was regained.
Coming attractions: Ethiopia {Gadling}
Dec 11th 2009 2:41AM The same can be said of Ethiopia in the light of your response above:
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eracolonialism/tp/AfricaNotColon.htm
In the 1880s Italy failed to take Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then known) as a colony. On 3 October 1935 Mussolini ordered a new invasion and on 9 May the following year Abyssinia was annexed by Italy. On 1 June the country was merged with Eritrea and Italian Somalia to form Africa Orientale Italiana (AOI - Italian East Africa).
Emperor Haile Selassie made an impassioned appeal to the League of Nations on 30 June 1936, gaining support from the US and Russia. But many League of Nations members, including Britain and France, recognized Italian colonization.
It was not until 5 May 1941, when Selassie was restored to the Ethiopian throne, that independence was regained.
Coming attractions: Ethiopia {Gadling}
Dec 11th 2009 12:46AM Please get your facts straight - Ethiopia is not the only African country to not be colonized as stated in your extracts above. Liberia was also never colonised.
