Conference 1

Intro

Discuss reading + Lecture content

Magnificent cake: 

• Gruesome violent tactics used 

• African population declined signifianctly

• Deaths in transit to Americas from Africa 

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• At Berlin conference European countries would divide Africa into countries and make their own borders for purposes of European rule, interesting and disturbing how colonization was used as a soft and hard power method

• The large number of Africans who were recruited to fight in the french military, as well how the assumption at the time was that all the British colonies Africa would eventually become French

What determined the success of countries to push back against European rule

Libya: Libya was successful for a while after European rule 

European power docterine: 

If one European country cannot keep their African colony under control, another nation would come take over