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’.

The almost intractable deadlock was resolved on April 29, 2011 when the FGN, Shell and Eni signed the Resolution Agreement ...

Africa's resources fuel global rivalry as the African Union must lead in safeguarding sovereignty and development ...

The renewed scramble for Africa suggests the answer is yes. "How Africa's population evolves, and how the continent's economies develop, will affect nearly everything people near and far assume ...

Erskine is working so that in this scramble, it is not the colonialist or the foreign investor who ultimately wins, but the African entrepreneur. Since 2012, Anita has championed entrepreneurs by ...

This explosive projected growth, touted as a solution to the climate crisis, masks a disturbing reality: carbon markets are fueling a new scramble for African land and perpetuating colonial-era ...

Africa is endowed with an abundance of natural resources, particularly minerals -- hence the "Scramble for Africa" of the pre-colonization era in the 18th and early 19th centuries, ...

Fear of losing to rivals drives each to pay attention to Africa. Fear was the stimulant for the scramble for Africa in the 1880s when Euro-powers met at Berlin to agree on how to grab African ...

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