The Berlin Conference, held from November 1884 to February 1885, resulted in the ratification of the General Act, accelerating European colonial expansion in what is known as the Scramble for Africa.

Intriguingly, the international community, particularly the United Nations (UN), is sitting by and watching as another round of the Berlin Conference unfolds. During that Conference of 1884–1885 ...

The Berlin Conference, also known as the "Congo Conference," was held 140 years ago, on November 15, 1884. At the conference, Europe's imperialist powers came together to negotiate the division of ...

True repentance on the part of the West, who divided and plundered Africa, must go beyond symbolic gestures, by not only providing assistance to the continent, but must seriously finance its revival, ...

Although he was from Europe, he organised the 1884 Berlin Conference during which Africa was divided between several European nations. There is no one from Africa at the table. African kingdoms ...