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Berlin Conference of 1884–1885
Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa; also called the Berlin West Africa Conference.The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 marked the climax ...
Burundi
After decades of ethnic violence Burundi faces many years of rebuildingThe west of Burundi lies along the Great Rift Valley, with Lake Tanganyika forming the southern two-thirds of the border. To the ...
Central African Republic
A landlocked country in Africa stretching west-to-east from Cameroon to the Sudan and south-to-north from humid equatorial forests bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo to the savannah plains of ...
Colonialism
Policies, problems, and legacies of European colonial rule in Africa, which began in the late nineteenth century and lasted until the 1960s.European colonization of Africa followed a long history ...
Democratic Republic of Congo
(name from 1971–1997 Zaïre) The largest country in equatorial Africa; it is bounded by nine other countries and has an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Congo.Physical.Thick forests ...
Development in Africa: An Interpretation
At the end of four decades of postwar development, the results are so varied that one is tempted to reject the common expression “Third World” when describing all the countries ...
Explorers in Africa since 1800
Foreigners who traveled to sub-Saharan Africa after 1800 to investigate its geography and peoples.Building on the work of earlier explorers, European explorers of Africa after 1800 provided ...
Gabon
An equatorial country on Africa's Atlantic coast, bounded inland by Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and Congo.Physical.Along the coast of Gabon are many lagoons, mangrove swamps, and large deposits of ...
Ghana
Ghana has achieved one of Africa's few transfers of power through the ballot boxApart from scattered hills and plateaux along its eastern and western borders, Ghana consists mostly of lowlands. These ...
Libreville
Capital of Gabon.Since at least the seventeenth century, Mpongwe people have inhabited the northern bank of the Gabon Estuary. During the nineteenth century, Fang people migrated into the area ...
Mozambique
Mozambique has now had a long period of peace and stability while Frelimo retains its grip on powerMozambique can be divided by the Zambezi River into two main geographical regions. The southern part ...
Niger
A large, landlocked West African country surrounded by Algeria, Libya, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Mali.Physical.The River Niger flows through the country in the extreme south-west, and ...
Sahrawi
Ethnic group in Western Sahara, Morocco, and Algeria.Berber peoples initially settled in Western Sahara by the first millennium b.c.e. By the sixth century b.c.e. the Berbers separated into several ...
Scramble for Africa Reference library
Encyclopedia of Africa
The scramble for Africa, a British term coined in 1884, describes the more than twenty-year period when European
Sierra Leone
Former British west African colony and protectorate. British anti‐slavery campaigners established a home for freed slaves in Freetown in 1797. The settlement became a British colony in 1808 and a ...
Somalia
Sǝˈmälēǝ; sōˈmälyǝa country in the Horn of Africa; capital, Mogadishu. Civil war broke out in Somalia in 1988 and led to the overthrow of the government in 1991; the ...
Swahili Coast
Stretch of East African coastline between southern Somalia in the north and northern Mozambique in the south that is home to more than 400 settlements.The Swahili coast (3,000 km ...
Togo
A West African country lying between Ghana and Benin.Physical.Togo has a southern coastline on the Gulf of Guinea of only 56 km (35 miles) but extends inland for over 560 km (350 miles) to Burkina ...
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