This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However ... King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained ...

France and Great Britain had already secured territories in North Africa and Senegal, but it was King Leopold II of Belgium who took ... into spheres of influence. MAP OF THE DIVISION OF AFRICA ...

(CNN)-- The wave of Independence across Africa in the 1950s and 1960s brought to the end around 75 years of colonial rule by Britain, France, Belgium ... drew lines on a map of places they ...