ROHAN KAUL, JASON TEW

Scramble for Africa

Berlin Conference of 1884

1884Called to negotiate questionsMajor western powers

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Division of Africa

Afterwards, it was divided up into 50 irregular countries.

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Influence

Mainly from economic and military dominance

Not a lot of alliances in Africa, so it was divide and conquer.

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Ethnocentrism

The belief that one’s ethnicity is centrally important.

Led to a civil warMainly applies after the British had left.

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Europe’s reasons for controlling Africa

Mainly for it’s natural resources.ImperialismWanted to create a large overseas empire.

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Citations

Crowe, Sybil E. (1942). The Berlin West African Conference, 1884–1985. New York: Longmans, Green. ISBN 0837132878 (1981, New ed. edition).

Kevin Shillington, Encyclopedia of African history, (CRC Press: 2005), p.1406.

R, Robinson, J.Gallagher and A. Denny, Africa and the Victorians, London, 1965, Page. 175.

Kevin Shillington, History of Africa: Revised Second Edition, (New York: Macmillian Publishers Limited, 2005), 301