For this blog post, I read a Wikipedia article about the colonization of Africa. Particularly: the Scramble for Africa. Apparently Britain Portugal and France had already claimed huge parts of Africa, along with Italy and Germany. When the Chancellor Bismark was dismissed, it just became a huge scramble for Africa, and the Berlin Conference was needed. This conference was established to create guidelines and rules for the colonization. What I don't understand is, why wasn't Africa at this conference? And why didn't they get any say in the colonization of their own country?
weblink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Africa#The_Scramble_for_Africa
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