This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’.

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

The "Randlords" up from the Cape openly plotted otherwise. A scene from the Scramble for Africa A number of territories in Africa, quarreled over by European nations that cynically carved them up ...

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The "Randlords" up from the Cape openly plotted otherwise. A scene from the Scramble for Africa A number of territories in Africa, quarreled over by European nations that cynically carved them up ...