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The Scramble for Africa
Why the sudden burst of activity?
- Political reasons
- New actors - competition for resources?
- Commercial Companies and Individuals
- King Leopold
- British East Africa Company
- Karl Peters
- Nations
- German involvement
- French trying to go from West to East
- British trying to go from North to South
- Technological reasons
- Steam, medicine, telegraph and communications, rifles and machine guns