A number of states in central and southern Africa collapsed in the 19th century ... was taken over by the Chokwe by the 1880s. In what is now western Uganda the Bunyoro lost out in 18th and ...

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 ...

The systematic colonisation of Africa, which gathered momentum in the 1880's, was not even on the horizon in the first half of the 19th century. Europeans had confined themselves to trading mainly ...

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

While the British were trying to stamp out the slave trade and spread the word of Christ, Berbers and Fulanis continued to preach the Islamic faith in West Africa. Already by 1809 all the Hausa ...

While the British were trying to stamp out the slave trade and spread the word of Christ, Berbers and Fulanis continued to preach the Islamic faith in West Africa. Already by 1809 all the Hausa ...

American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa (University of Chicago Press ... and Technology in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 (Johns Hopkins University ...

We need to talk about Africa. With major wars raging in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, increased Chinese and ...

We need to talk about Africa. With major wars raging in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, increased Chinese and Russian activity, jihadi terrorists gaining ground in many places ...