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’.

They must also invest in education and build industries that sustain their people. The scramble for Africa’s wealth is fiercer than ever. But Africa is not helpless. It can choose how to respond.

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 ...

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

This book, as Richard Reid explains at the outset, is not the history of the European “Scramble for Africa” that the publishers asked him to write. It is a story of the African scramble.

In this reflection, I posit that the Afrocentricity of the African university - and its lack thereof - is a reflection of the ongoing scramble for and partition of the African mind and being ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, Africa has increasingly become one of the stages for geo-economic competition among major economic blocs. Some analysts described this phenomenon as a “new scramble for ...