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.

In popular presentations, the Berlin Conference initiated the Scramble for Africa. However, the conference did not begin the partition of Africa but only laid down a few rules to govern the ...

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