Thousands of Africans were killed by European forces as each nation claimed the territory they decided was theirs. This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians ...

accelerating European colonial expansion in what is known as the Scramble for Africa. This violent process redrew Africa’s borders, fractured ethnic, cultural, and linguistic landscapes ...

Another front is rapidly emerging which takes the form of a new Scramble for Africa. Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining position of US and European imperialism on the ...

Naturally, France backed off and could only play its hands on its former colonies from faraway Europe. Successes were ...

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

It is estimated that nearly two thirds of Africa would have been converted to Islam had the European powers not embarked on the 'Scramble for Africa' in the 1880's. Islam, compared to Christianity ...

It does not take long for members of the diaspora sitting through the cold and drizzly spring of Europe or North ... The new Africa is not about a scramble for resources or chasing the next ...

The renewed scramble for Africa suggests the answer is yes. "How Africa's population evolves, and how the continent's economies develop, will affect nearly everything people near and far assume ...

Africa is endowed with an abundance of natural resources, particularly minerals -- hence the "Scramble for Africa" of the pre-colonization era in the 18th and early 19th centuries, ...