AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND THEIR OLD NAMES

🇧🇯Benin (Dahomey)

🇧🇼Botswana (Bechuanaland)

🇧🇫Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)

🇧🇮Burundi (Rwanda-Urundi)

🇨🇫Central African Republic (Ubangi-Shari)

🇨🇬Congo Brazzaville (Middle Congo, French Congo)

🇨🇲 Cameroon ( German Cameroon) 

🇨🇩DR Congo (Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Léopodville, Republic of Zaire,)

🇩🇯Djibouti (French Somaliland, Afars and Issas)

🇸🇿Eswatini (Swaziland)

🇪🇹Ethiopia (Damot, Abyssinia)

🇬🇲 The Gambia (Senegambia, Kaabu, British Gambia)

🇬🇭Ghana (Gold Coast)

🇬🇳Guinea (Conarky, French Guinea, French Guinea)

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea)

🇰🇪Kenya (British East Africa)

🇱🇸Lesotho (Basutoland)

🇲🇼Malawi (Nyasaland)

🇲🇱Mali (French Sudan)

🇲🇺Mauritius (Prins Mauritius van Nassaueiland)

🇲🇦Morocco (Al-Maghrib)

🇳🇦Namibia (Island Nawodo, Onawero)

🇷🇼Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)

🇸🇳 Senegal ( Senegambia)

🇹🇿Tanzania (Tanganyika)

🇺🇬Uganda (Buganda)

🇿🇲Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)

🇿🇼Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

Photo Credited; Rohan Bellingy 

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