com). When Germany was defeated it lost its African colonies, but they did not gain their independence, they acquired new colonial leaders, France and Britain in WW1 (www.dw.de). When World War 1 ended, African soldiers often received little or no compensations for lost limbs or battle injuries (www.dw.de). .
In WW2 The North African Campaign took place in Northern African deserts, it included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian desserts it was fought between the Allies and Axis powers. Revolutionaries after WW2 fighting for independence from colonial power branded the old colonial military forces during WW2 as traitors (africasacountry.com).
POLOCIES/LEADERSHIP/INFLUENCE.
Muslims had the overall influence and political rule due to Mohammed's death in Africa before any European countries' officially settled. After the Europeans officially settled the scramble for territorial claims began called the Scramble for Africa. The Berlin Conference on the Congo in 1884-85 gave impetus to this scramble in which each nation sought to stake out for itself the largest possible holdings. During the years following the Berlin Conference the British and French governments sought to covert their grandiose territorial claims into valid title by effective occupation. (www.foreignaffairs.com). At the height of European colonialism in the 19th century, Portugal had lost its territory in South America and focused on expanding its outposts in Africa. (www.oxfordbibliographies.com). The British ultimatum of 1890 was imposed upon King Carlos 1 of Portugal and Portuguese colonialism in Africa ended (www.oxfordbibliographies.com). The two nations, which had acquired the largest prizes- Great Britain and France-, embarked upon divergent programs. The English businessman and financier Cecil Rhodes founded the modern diamond industry and controlled the British South Africa Company, which acquired Rhodesia and Zambia as British territories.
