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’.

In addition, these countries aimed to “develop and civilise Africa”, according to documents from that period. Thus began the mad “Scramble for Africa”, as it would later be called. Great Britain, ...

This situation, dubbed the “new scramble for Africa,” mirrors the land grabs of the colonial era, perpetuating a cycle of dispossession and marginalisation. As concerning is the surge in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In addition, these countries aimed to “develop and civilise Africa”, according to documents from that period. Thus began the mad “Scramble for Africa”, as it would later be called.

Over the past few years, Africa has increasingly become one of the stages for geo-economic competition among major economic blocs. Some analysts described this phenomenon as a “new scramble for ...