A scene from the Scramble for Africa A number of territories in Africa ... They crossed the unmarked border on December 29, 1895, and were captured easily on January 2, 1896, near the boomtown ...

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 ...

Africa must invest in refineries, manufacturing, and value chains that retain wealth within its borders ... that sustain their people. The scramble for Africa’s wealth is fiercer than ever.

If the two tectonic plates continue to shift and the EAR system widens further, eventually a large basin will form. Due to the close proximity of the Indian Ocean, it’s likely that the basin ...

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

After three months deliberating over territorial borders and free trade zones ... is the economic rupture that triggered the ‘Scramble for Africa’—the first major crisis of modern capitalism ...

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’.