What two sub-Saharan African countries were never part of any colony of Europe? By this I am including the land area prior to the country's founding as well. Their lands were never part of any European colony. (Jeopardy missed this one today, only giving one country. This is too funny. I just checked the CIA World Factbook, and it has only one, too - the one that Jeopardy missed. Trust only AnswerPool for all your Trivia needs. )

I know that Jeopardy mentioned "Liberia",... working on the second one.

Ethiopia and Liberia -- I think.
So, DG, did you write to Jeopardy to show them the error of their ways?

I found this : Cameroon technically was never a colony. It was a German protectorate and then a British and French mandate. Source
Kelleygirl, I don't think Ethiopia is a sub-saharan country.

Good job, both of you. I really thought this would be a tough one to answer. (Shows what I know. ) Ethiopia is the country that the CIA World Factbook had. Mozart, Wikipedia list Ethiopia as sub-Saharan, as does several other sources.

I admit to not thinking about Cameroon, but many sources say that it was once a German colony, several of them University sites. The Kameroun flag of the time certainly looked almost exactly like the other German colonies' flags. If I had to bet, I would say it's was a colony.

No, I don't think I'll write Jeopardy. I did once a few years ago, andm even though I was right, with excellent sources backing my position up, they didn't acknowledge me at all. All I expected was an e-mail response, but I didn't even get that.

Very good DG.
(Ethiopia) It has long been an intersection between the civilizations of North Africa, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Unique among African countries, Ethiopia was never colonised, maintaining its independence throughout the Scramble for Africa onward, except for a five-year period (1936-41) when it was under Italian occupation. There was no Italian colonization of Ethiopia .
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Ethiopia has another, much older claim to world fame.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Axum, Ethiopia is the only one in the world which claims to still possess the Ark of the Covenant. Local tradition maintains that it was brought to Ethiopia by Menelik I following a visit to his father King Solomon. Although it was once paraded before the town once each year, it is now kept under constant guard in a "treasury" near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, and only the head priest of the church is allowed to view it. Most Western historians are skeptical of this claim.

Dr Bernard Leeman, in his 2005 book "Queen of Sheba and Biblical Scholarship" (Queensland Academic Press) accepts the Ethiopian traditions. He argues that the Ge'ez narrative of the Sheba-Menelik Cycle of the Kebra Nagast supports the case that ancient Judah was in west Arabia not Palestine and that Menelik's escape with the Ark follows landmarks and place names in Asir, Yemen, and Eritrea. Second, Leeman draws attention to the Ark culture of Arabia (detailed in Munro-Hay and Grierson's works), the "Hebrewisms" in the Ancient West Arabian language, the word for Ark in Ge'ez (which is taken from pre-Babylonian captivity Hebrew), inscriptions in Sabaean near Mekele that speak of Hebrew resident there ca. 800 B.C. ruled by three queens of Sheba, and the continued presence in the region of a Hebraic remnant group, the Ibro (or Yibir) of northern Somalia. - Wikipedia