Thus began the mad “Scramble for Africa”, as it would later be ... “We have artificial ‘nations’ carved out at the Berlin Conference in 1884, and today we are struggling to build these ...

The Berlin Conference, held from November 1884 to February 1885 ... European colonial expansion in what is known as the Scramble for Africa. This violent process redrew Africa’s borders ...

The Berlin Conference (1884–1885) is widely seen as the moment when European colonial powers came together to divide Africa. It was the first European diplomatic meeting dedicated entirely to ...

All of this made me wonder if it was 1884-1885 all over again- the Berlin Conference that ended with the partitioning of Africa and rules for its conquest. Why would nations so far removed make ...

Described by one scholar on its centenary as “perhaps the greatest historical movement of modern times”, the Berlin West Africa Conference began shortly after noon on 15 November 1884.

[AFP] February 26 marks 140 years since the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 ... The Berlin conference formalised the scramble for Africa, which was already well underway. The participating ...

The Scramble for Africa preceded the Berlin Conference but the conference crystallised rules and doctrines that would govern the colonial occupation of Africa in its wake. In opening the ...

German Project Reinvents 1884 Berlin ... of the original Berlin Conference which began on Nov. 15, 1884, and led to an act regulating European colonization and trade in Africa.