Ìtò
Orílẹ̀-èdè [ lower-alpha 1]
Orúkọ wọn nígbà ìsìnrú
Orílẹ̀-èdè akónilẹ́rú [ lower-alpha 2]
Ọjọ́ tí wọ́n gba òmìnira [ lower-alpha 3]
Adarí àkọ́kọ́[ lower-alpha 4]
Bí wọ́n ṣe gba òmìnira
1
Liberia
Liberia
United States
26 July 1847[ lower-alpha 5]
Joseph Jenkins Roberts [ lower-alpha 6] William Tubman
Liberian Declaration of Independence
2
South Africa [ lower-alpha 7]
Cape Colony Colony of Natal Orange River Colony Àdàkọ:Country data Transvaal Colony Transvaal Colony
United Kingdom
31 May 1910[ lower-alpha 8]
Louis Botha
South Africa Act 1909
3
Egypt [ lower-alpha 9]
Sultanate of Egypt
28 February 1922[ lower-alpha 10]
Fuad I [ lower-alpha 11]
Egyptian revolution of 1919
4
Àdàkọ:Country data Ethiopian Empire Ethiopian Empire
Italian East Africa
Italy United Kingdom
31 January 1942 19 December 1944
Haile Selassie
Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement (East African campaign )
Eritrea
Italian Eritrea
Italy [ lower-alpha 12]
10 February 1947[ lower-alpha 13]
Haile Selassie [ lower-alpha 14]
Eritrean War of Independence
5
Emirate of Cyrenaica
British Military Administration
United Kingdom
1 March 1949
Idris
5
United Kingdom of Libya
British Military Administration Fezzan-Ghadames Military Territory Emirate of Cyrenaica
United Kingdom France Emirate of Cyrenaica
24 December 1951
Western Desert campaign
5
Libya [ lower-alpha 15]
Italian Libya [ lower-alpha 16]
Italy United Kingdom
24 December 1951
Idris
Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947 U.N. General Assembly Resolution 289[ 7]
6
Sudan
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
United Kingdom [ lower-alpha 17] Egypt
1 January 1956[ lower-alpha 18]
Ismail al-Azhari [ lower-alpha 19]
-[ lower-alpha 20]
7
South Sudan
8
Tunisia [ lower-alpha 21]
French Tunisia
France United Kingdom
20 March 1956
Muhammad VIII al-Amin Habib Bourguiba
-[ lower-alpha 22]
9
Morocco
French Morocco Tangier International Zone Spanish Morocco Spanish West Africa Ifni
France Spain
2 March 1956[ lower-alpha 23] 7 April 1956 10 April 1958 4 January 1969 14 November 1975 27 February 1976
Mohammed V
Ifni War
10
Ghana [ lower-alpha 24]
Gold Coast
United Kingdom
6 March 1957[ lower-alpha 25]
Kwame Nkrumah [ lower-alpha 26]
1956 Gold Coast general election
11
Guinea
Àdàkọ:Country data French West Africa
France
2 October 1958
Ahmed Sékou Touré
1958 Guinean constitutional referendum
12
Cameroon
Kamerun French Cameroon British Cameroon
German Empire France United Kingdom
4 March 1916 1 January 1960[ lower-alpha 27] 1 October 1961
Karl Ebermaier Ahmadou Ahidjo John Ngu Foncha
-[ lower-alpha 28]
13
Togo
French Togoland
France
27 April 1960
Sylvanus Olympio
-
14
Mali
French West Africa
20 June 1960[ lower-alpha 29]
Modibo Keïta
-
15
Senegal
Léopold Sédar Senghor
-
16
Madagascar [ lower-alpha 30]
French Madagascar
26 June 1960
Philibert Tsiranana
-[ lower-alpha 31]
17
Democratic Republic of the Congo
[ lower-alpha 32]
Belgian Congo
Belgium
30 June 1960
Joseph Kasa-Vubu
Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference [ lower-alpha 33]
18
Somalia [ lower-alpha 34]
Àdàkọ:Country data British Somaliland Trust Territory of Somaliland
United Kingdom Italy
26 June 1960 1 July 1960[ lower-alpha 35]
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal Aden Adde
-
19
Republic of Dahomey
Republic of Dahomey Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá
France Portugal
1 August 1960 31 July 1961[ 9]
Hubert Maga
19
Benin [ lower-alpha 36]
Àdàkọ:Country data French West Africa
France
1 August 1960
Hubert Maga
-
20
Niger
3 August 1960
Hamani Diori
-
21
Burkina Faso
[ lower-alpha 37]
5 August 1960
Maurice Yaméogo
-
22
Ivory Coast
7 August 1960
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
-
23
Chad
Àdàkọ:Country data French Equatorial Africa
11–12 August 1960
François Tombalbaye
-
24
Central African Republic
13 August 1960
David Dacko
-
25
Republic of the Congo
14–15 August 1960
Fulbert Youlou
-
26
Gabon
16–17 August 1960
Léon M'ba
-
27
Nigeria
Colonial Nigeria British Cameroon
United Kingdom
1 October 1960 1 June 1961 1 October 1961[ lower-alpha 38]
Nnamdi Azikiwe
-
28
Mauritania
Àdàkọ:Country data French West Africa
France
28 November 1957 28 November 1960
Moktar Ould Daddah
-
29
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
United Kingdom
27 April 1961
Milton Margai
-
30
Àdàkọ:Country data Tanganyika (1961–1964) [ lower-alpha 39]
Àdàkọ:Country data Tanganyika Territory
9 December 1961
Julius Nyerere
-
31
Burundi [ lower-alpha 40]
Àdàkọ:Country data German East Africa Ruanda-Urundi
Germany Belgium
1 July 1919 1 July 1962
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi
-
32
Rwanda
Yuhi V Musinga Grégoire Kayibanda
Rwandan Revolution
33
Algeria
French Algeria
France
5 July 1962
Ahmed Ben Bella [ lower-alpha 41]
Algerian War Évian Accords
34
Uganda
Protectorate of Uganda
United Kingdom
9 October 1962
Milton Obote
-
35
Kenya
British East Africa
12 December 1963[ lower-alpha 42]
Jomo Kenyatta [ lower-alpha 26]
-[ lower-alpha 43]
36
Sultanate of Zanzibar [ lower-alpha 39]
Sultanate of Zanzibar
10 December 1963
Jamshid bin Abdullah
-[ lower-alpha 44]
37
Malawi
Àdàkọ:Country data Nyasaland
6 July 1964[ lower-alpha 45]
Hastings Banda [ lower-alpha 26]
-
38
Zambia
Àdàkọ:Country data Northern Rhodesia
24 October 1964
Kenneth Kaunda
-
39
The Gambia
Gambia Colony and Protectorate
18 February 1965[ lower-alpha 46]
Dawda Jawara [ lower-alpha 26]
-
40
Àdàkọ:Country data Rhodesia Zimbabwe
Àdàkọ:Country data Southern Rhodesia
11 November 1965 [ lower-alpha 47]
Ian Smith
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
41
Botswana
Bechuanaland Protectorate
30 September 1960 – 1966[ lower-alpha 48]
Seretse Khama
-
42
Lesotho
Basutoland
4 October 1966
Leabua Jonathan [ lower-alpha 49]
-
43
Mauritius
Mauritius
12 March 1968
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
-
44
Eswatini
Swaziland
6 September 1968
Sobhuza II
-
45
Equatorial Guinea
Spanish Guinea
Spain
12 October 1968
Francisco Macías Nguema
-
46
Guinea-Bissau
Portuguese Guinea
Portugal
24 September 1973 10 September 1974 (recognised) 5 July 1975[ lower-alpha 50]
Luís Cabral João Bernardo Vieira Aristides Pereira Pedro Pires
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
47
Mozambique [ lower-alpha 51]
Portuguese Mozambique
25 June 1975
Samora Machel
Mozambican War of Independence
48
Cape Verde
Portuguese Cape Verde
5 July 1975
Aristides Pereira [ lower-alpha 52]
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence [ lower-alpha 53]
49
Comoros
French Comoros
France
6 July 1975
Ahmed Abdallah
1974 Comorian independence referendum
50
São Tomé and Príncipe
Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe
Portugal
12 July 1975
Manuel Pinto da Costa
-
51
Angola [ lower-alpha 54]
Portuguese Angola
11 November 1975
Agostinho Neto
Angolan War of Independence
52
Seychelles
Crown Colony of the Seychelles
United Kingdom
29 June 1976
James Mancham
-
53
Djibouti
French Territory of the Afars and the Issas
France
27 June 1977
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
1977 Afars and Issas independence referendum
54
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [ lower-alpha 55]
Spanish Sahara Southern Provinces
Western Tiris
Spain Morocco
Mauritania
27 February 1976independence not yet effectuated
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed Mohamed Abdelaziz
Western Sahara War Western Sahara conflict
55
Namibia
Àdàkọ:Country data South West Africa
South Africa
October 27, 1966 (de jure )[ 11] 21 March 1990
Sam Nujoma
U.N. Security Council Resolution 269
South African Border War