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 ...

In Britain and much of Europe, too little is remembered about how the continent was carved up at the Berlin Conference in 1884-85. In Africa ... of the mind and of maps rather than rupture ...

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 ...