Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - France yakanga yakunda
chikamu chikuru chokuchamhembe kweAlgeria mukati menguva ya1830-47, ichibatanidza sechikamu chinokosha cheFrance. Makore okuma1880 akaona makwikwi akakomba pakati pemasimba eEurope nokuda kwenzvimbo muAfrica, muitiro unozivikanwa seKutamburira Africa. Ikoku kwakaguma neMusangano weBerlin wa1884, umo marudzi eEurope anobatanidzwa akabvumirana pamusoro pezvaanoda zvenharaunda nemitemo yokubatana inopfuurira mberi. Somugumisiro weizvi France yakawana kudzora mupata wepamusoro weRwizi rweNiger (inenge yakaenzana nenzvimbo dzemazuva ano dzeMali neNiger). France yakatora nzvimbo iyi muna 1900, ichiteverwa neMauritania muna 1903-4; nzvimbo idzi dzakazova zvikamu zvehurumende yeFrench West Africa ("Afrique occidentale française", yakapfupikiswa AOF). Munguvayi vaFrance vakanga vave vachisundira kumaodzanyemba vachibva kumhenderekedzo yegungwa yeAlgeria, vachikunda rutivi rukuru rweSahara yeAlgeria muna 1902. Muganhu pakati peFrench West Africa neFrench Algeria (kureva miganhu yemazuva ano yeAlgeria neMauritania, Mali neNiger) yakabvumiranwa musi wa7 Chikumi 1905 naCommandant weUpper Senegal neNiger uye Mutungamiriri wemauto weDhipatimendi de l'Oasis mukati meFrench Algeria. Muganhu wacho wakatsanangurwazve neNiamey Convention yaJune 1909.