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historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’. In addition to the continent being divided up amongst European countries ...

On November 15, 1884, European imperialists gathered in Berlin to start dividing up Africa between them. What impact has one of history's biggest land grabs had on the continent?

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

Observers talk of a "Russian conquest" of Africa and "Russian-controlled governments" on the continent. Beyond the headlines, ...