WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The British and French colonised more than 95% of the African continent. While Britain colonised 22 African states, France colonised 20. France retained control of the Northern, Western and parts of Central Africa while Britain had control of Eastern and Southern Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -The British Empire was the largest empire in human history. A large portion of this territory consisted of British colonies in Africa; Britain controlled much of the continent of Africa for nearly a century before its empire collapsed in the middle of the 1900s.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the start of World War One, the whole of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, was under European rule, and Great Britain and France controlled the two largest colonial empires.

Detailed explanation-4: -At its most extensive, the British Empire comprised 57 colonies, dominions, territories or protectorates from Australia, Canada and India to Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga.

Detailed explanation-5: -Britain acquired the Cape of Good Hope Colony at the southern tip of Africa in 1815 and annexed the adjacent coastal region of Natal in 1843.