The Scramble for Africa by Charles River Editors

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“The British South-African Company's shares May be at a discount—(Trade-martyrs!—trade-martyrs!)— But he, our Colossus, strides on, he declares, Whether with or without chums or charters—or charters. Hooray! We brave Britons are right now to the front— Provided we've someone to boss us—to boss us; And Scuttlers will have their work cut out to shunt This stalwart, far-striding Colossus—Colossus!” – Excerpt from an editorial in Punch, December 10, 1892The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoi