After the German and Ottoman empires fell following World War I, a map closer ... idea that the Berlin Conference was a seminal event in the European partition of Africa.” Paine, and many ...

Analysis - Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, ...

Although he was from Europe, he organised the 1884 Berlin Conference during which Africa was divided between several European nations. There is no one from Africa at the table. African kingdoms ...

a map closer to what we now know as Africa would emerge. Historians point out that unlike what is widely believed, the Berlin Conference did not kick-start the colonisation process; instead ...