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| 1900 |
| | | The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age | |
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| 1904 |
| | | The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa | |
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| 1914 |
| | | British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony | |
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| 1914 August |
| | | British and French forces invade the German colony of Togoland | |
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| 1915 July |
| | | South African troops capture German South West Africa | |
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| 1916 |
| | | British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa | |
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