Wasn't Liberia a French colony? :confused:   I'm not too certain, so you're probably right. Nope, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only two African countries that were not colonized by the European powers during the Scramble for Africa.     Two problems confronting successive administrations were pressure from neighboring colonial powers,  Britain  and  France , and the threat of financial insolvency, both of which challenged the countrys sovereignty. Liberia retained its independence during the  Scramble for Africa , but lost its claim to extensive territories that were annexed by Britain and France.    Europe's formal holdings now included the entire African continent except  Ethiopia ,  Liberia , and  Saguia el-Hamra , the latter of which would be integrated into  Spanish Sahara .       http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...frica_1914.png