There is contention among a few historians as to whether Ethiopia deserves the accolade as the only country on the continent that was never successfully colonized.
This is because Liberia, a country founded in 1847 as a home for freed enslaved African by abolitionists ulterior motives, was also technically never colonized, at least, not in any way close to how we would speak of the imperial annexation of other places in Africa.
Source: Three amazing facts about how Ethiopia was never colonized – Face2Face Africa
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