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 outcome of the Berlin conference The Berlin Conference made the division of Africa official. To claim control over a region, each European power had to demonstrate effective occupation. This ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

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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 ...

It is estimated that nearly two thirds of Africa would have been converted to Islam had the European powers not embarked on the 'Scramble for Africa' in the 1880's. Islam, compared to Christianity ...

The rising uncertainty triggered by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs is forcing South African manufacturers to rethink ...

Mineworkers in South Africa, the world’s largest producer of manganese, complain of memory loss and other neurological ills Men work at the Manganese Metal Co.’s refinery in Mbombela ...

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 ...

Pakenham’s history of European colonisation of Africa in the late 19 May 2025 century is reissued this month alongside his in-depth account of The Boer War.