Causes of Scramble and Partition of Africa
“Discuss the causes
which led to the scramble and partition of Africa.”
Scramble of Africans was a
competition of Europeans countries to take Africa. Partition it was a result of
scramble where by African continent were divided among the capitalist
countries.
The outlined below are the causes
of scramble and partition of Africa:
-
Availability
of raw materials in Africa
-
Europeans
need for area of investment
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Strategic
areas in Africa like, Egypt and Congo
-
Market
to sell Europeans product
-
Need
to spread Europeans culture
-
Humanitarian
reasons
-
Europeans
balance of power