Between the years 1870 and 1900, Africa had to oppose aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and the eventual colonization from European countries such as Portugal, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Belgium, who competed for power as well as supremacy in Africa.
Among the named above, the two European countries that established most colonies in African continent were: Britain, who organized its colonies subdividing them into provinces controlled by commissioners. And France, whose colonial ideology of civilizing brought as result the assimilation of natives.
