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.

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’.