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How many African representatives took part in the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, which set the rules for partitioning Africa?
European diplomats set the ground rules — 'effective occupation' above all — without a single African participant. By 1914 roughly 90% of the continent was under European rule.
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The Scramble for Africa The Scramble for Africa was the partition of nearly the entire continent among European powers between roughly 1880 and 1914. The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 set the ground rules without a single African participant; by 1914 only Ethiopia and Liberia remained independent. The borders drawn then are, overwhelmingly, the borders of Africa today.
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