GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Historians use the term ‘Scramble for Africa’ to describe the period of intense European interest in, colonization, occupation, and annexation of Africa between the 1880s and 1914.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European colonisers partitioned the – up to that point – largely unexplored African continent into protectorates, colonies and ‘free-trade areas’.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa, the Conquest of Africa or the Rape of Africa, was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914).

Detailed explanation-4: -European Imperialism, or the Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa or the Conquest of Africa, was the invasion, occupation, division, and colonization of African territory by European powers during a short period known to historians as the New Imperialism between 1881 and 1914.