Author: Shola Lawal
Published on: 26/02/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
Great Britain, Portugal, France, Germany, and King Leopold II of Belgium sent scouts to secure trade and sovereignty treaties with local leaders. Squabbles soon erupted in Europe over who “owned” what. The French, for example, clashed with Britain over several West African territories. Belgium’s King Leopold also sent emissaries to secure recognition of the International Congo Society. No African leader was present. A request by the Sultan of Zanzibar to attend was dismissed. Aside from those nine other countries, most of whom would end up leaving the conference with no territory at all. Areas that ended up under Leopold, known as the Congo Free State, would suffer some of the worst brutalities of colonisation. The Act bound all parties to protect the “native tribes… Their moral and material wellbeing” and further suppress the Slave Trade which was officially abolished in 1807/1808. It also stated that merely staking flags on newly acquired territory would not be grounds for ownership. Germany: German West Africa (Senegal), French Sudan (Mali), Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Mauritania, Federation of French Equatorial Africa (Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Chad, Central African Republic), French East Africa (Djibouti), French Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Dahomey (Benin), Niger, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya Britain: Cape Colony (South Africa), Rhode researchers agree that colonisation determined the future of Africa in ways that continue to have profound geo-political effects on today’s Africa. Because of colonialism, Africa “had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate satisfactorily” researchers wrote in their 1997 book Realms, Regions, and Concepts.

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