Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914The partition of Africa was one of the most spectacular episodes in modern history. For Europeans, Africa was still an unknown continent in 1880. Thirty years later almost all of it was under European control. This race for colonies went hand in hand with a host of thrilling exploits and dramatic conflicts, of which Stanley's exploration of the Congo and Gordon's death in Khartoum are just two examples. |
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... Muslim unity . The incom- petent rulers , those who played the game of the Europeans , had to be deposed . His movement led to the rise of an Egyptian press and of a political party that voiced a variety of political , social and ...
... Muslim geographers in the Middle Ages when describing the " land of the blacks , " the Bilad al - Sudan , by which they meant the area between the Sahara and the tropical rainforest stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and di ...
... Muslims and Christians , but Catholics and Prot- estants , who also fought one another . On 24 December Lugard came up with the following proposal : he offered company protection to the kabaka , in exchange for which the latter would ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |