At the Berlin Conference in 1884, the USA, the Ottoman Empire and 12 European countries divided up most of the African continent between them. This is known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’.

Thus began the mad “Scramble for Africa”, as it would later be ... took up the task of calling for and hosting the conference in Berlin at the Reich Chancellery, his official residence on ...

Italy was one of most minor European players in the Berlin Conference’s Scramble for Africa. Like Germany, it had unified as a nation only recently. Unlike Germany, it was not a military power ...

Ecumenical groups have met 140 years after the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, to acknowledge that the deep wounds of ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Residents queue to collect water from a water point in Bukavu on February 21, 2025 ...

A European conference thereafter (Berlin Conference 1884-85 ... among other reasons, drove this “scramble for Africa”. This was the then scramble for Africa. Fast forward to 2014.

No Africa nation was invited to Berlin in 1884 when its territories were shared with long knives at a conference table. In the new scramble, Africa's leaders are being invited at least to ...

The Berlin Conference and the 'legacy of late ... epistemic violence in higher education during the Scramble for and Partition of Africa. It symbolises the erasure of indigenous knowledge and ...

One of the chief justifications for this so-called 'scramble for Africa' was ... to feel they had a duty to 'civilise' Africa. The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, convened by Otto von Bismarck ...