The Scramble for Africa

By kaileeg
  • Period: 600 to 1500

    Before European colonization

  • Period: to

    The Berlin Conference

  • European territorial claims on the African continent

  • Benito Mussolini's Italian troops invade Ethiopia

    The last African nation not dominated by a foreign power.
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    Post-colonial era

    Today, Africa contains 53 countries so called "independent and sovereign countries" , most of which still have the borders drawn during the era of European colonialism.

  • OAU succeeded by the African Union