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The sleeping sickness epidemic in Africa was arrested through mobile teams systematically screening millions of people at risk. [92] In the 1880s cattle brought from British Asia to feed Italian soldiers invading Eritrea turned out to be infected with a disease called rinderpest. Decimation of native herds severely damaged local livelihoods ...
African-American historian W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1948 that alongside the Atlantic slave trade in Africans a great world movement of modern times is "the partitioning of Africa after the Franco-Prussian War which, with the Berlin Conference of 1884, brought colonial imperialism to flower" and that "[t]he primary reality of imperialism in ...
The author explains the partition of Africa in terms of a complex, multi-faceted causality. As for the wider impact of European colonization on Africa, Wesseling differs from earlier authors such as Allan McPhee (The Economic Revolution in British West Africa [1926, repr. 1971, with a preface by Anthony G. Hopkins, a leading economic historian ...
Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
The Scramble for Africa: the White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (13th ed.). London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-10449-2. Phillips, Anne. The enigma of colonialism : British policy in West Africa (1989) Online
In the 1880s the European powers had divided up almost all of Africa (only Ethiopia and Liberia were independent). They ruled until after World War II when forces of nationalism grew much stronger. In the 1950s and 1960s the colonial holdings became independent states.
African initiatives and resistance in West Africa, 1880–1914 M'Baye Gueye (Senegal) and Albert Adu Boahen (Ghana) 7 African initiatives and resistance in East Africa, 1880–1914 Henry A. Mwanzi (Kenya) 8 African initiatives and resistance in Central Africa, 1880–1914 Allen F. Isaacman (U.S.A.) and Jan Vansina (Belgium) 9
In Africa, formal institutions had low stability and weak enforcement, leading to the emergence of dysfunctional institutions. [48] A major source of the low institutional stability in African countries was the colonial partitioning of African borders, leading to political violence and ethnic conflict. [49]