WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term “Scramble for Africa” is used to describe the period of intense European interest in colonization, occupation and annexation of Africa between the 1880s and 1914. Other terms used for the same phenomena include “Partition of Africa” and “Race for Africa“.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ‘Scramble for Africa’ is the term that historians use to refer to the expansion of European empires into Africa during the Age of Imperialism. It is referred to as a ‘scramble’ due to the way in which the European nations raced to capture territory to expand to their empires.

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: -The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, between the 1880s and the start of World War I.

Detailed explanation-5: -The reasons for African colonisation were mainly economic, political and religious. During this time of colonisation, an economic depression was occurring in Europe, and powerful countries such as Germany, France, and Great Britain, were losing money.