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1904
 
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The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert       
1912
 
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Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya      
1913
 
    
Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa       
1914
 
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British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony      
1914 August
 
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British and French forces invade the German colony of Togoland      
1915 July
 
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South African troops capture German South West Africa      
1916
 
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British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon      
1919
 
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The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa       
1922
 
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The League of Nations gives France and Britain mandates to govern separate areas of the German colony of Cameroon      
1922
 
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France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland