How Europe Nearly Went to War Over Africa | Scramble and Partition of Africa
This documentary explores how European exploration, industrial demand, missionary expansion, imperial rivalry, and the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 turned the Scramble for Africa into a calculated partition of the continent.
From coastal trade posts and the search for Africa's interior to King Leopold II's Congo ambitions and the doctrine of effective occupation, Part 1 follows the forces that redrew African borders without African consent.
Watch the documentary to understand how decisions made in Berlin helped shape the colonial map of Africa.
