A scene from the Scramble for Africa A number of territories in Africa, quarreled over by European nations that cynically carved them up over inadequate maps in remote conference rooms thousands ...

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’.

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 ...