This is known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. We can still see the impact of the ‘Scramble for Africa’ today, in the languages spoken in former African colonies, how their governments work ...

“When Africa succeeds, the United States succeeds,” Biden said Wednesday in a keynote address to the gathering. “Quite frankly, the whole world succeeds as well.” But in this “new ...

"Scramble for Africa" historically refers to the late 19th and early 20th centuries when European powers colonised and divided the African continent, seeking political, economic, and strategic ...

The experiment with formally independent capitalist states over the past six decades has paved the way for a new Scramble for Africa as part of a re-division of the whole world between the ...

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Over the past few years, Africa has increasingly become one of the stages for geo-economic competition among major economic blocs. Some analysts describe this phenomenon as a "new scramble for ...