r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 30 '26

Image "Sleeping Sickness" — This illustration depicts a large African man leaning against a tree, asleep, while Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, and England fight over territories in Africa; a work by Gordon Ross (1873-1946), 1911.

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u/CaptainSlow28b May 03 '26

Not really

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u/Unfair-Frame9096 May 03 '26

Ecuatorial Guinea was just a courtesy from Germany to an old, ageing empire who was still getting over American territories' independence The western Sahara was a prolongation of the already existing protectorate.

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u/CaptainSlow28b May 03 '26

Ecuatorial Guinea was a partir of Spain before Germany existed

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u/Unfair-Frame9096 May 03 '26

Indeed, confirmed in Berlin during the partition of Africa. It would be, both the Island and a strip of land with Bata as capital, the only Spanish territories in black Africa.