The "Randlords" up from the Cape openly plotted otherwise. A scene from the Scramble for Africa A number of territories in Africa, quarreled over by European nations that cynically carved them up ...

The new Africa is not about a scramble for resources or chasing the next big market opportunity, “the new Africa is built on self-love, self-acceptance, authentic truth, and beautiful ...

A number of states in central and southern Africa collapsed in the 19th century, others flourished. In the 1850s the Imbangla of Kasanje lost their monopoly as long distance traders doing business ...

The experiment with formally independent capitalist states over the past six decades has paved the way for a new Scramble for Africa as part of a re-division of the whole world between the ...

Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17620, October 2014.

This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’.

The aim is to control the oil-rich region. Another front is rapidly emerging which takes the form of a new Scramble for Africa. Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining ...