It regained its rightful place in Africa in the United Nations and in the family of nations-----South Africa observes Commonwealth Day. The Scramble for Africa also called the Partition of Africa or the Conquest of Africa was the invasion annexation division and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism between 1881 and 1914.
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The Berlin Conference was held in Berlin.
. After the democratic elections in 1994 South Africa ceased to be the pariah of the world. The 10 percent of Africa that was under formal European control in 1870 increased to almost 90. The Scramble for Africa describes the period of intense European interest in colonization occupation and annexation of Africa between the 1880s-1914.
None of their borders is concurrent with any of the straight lines imposed on the continent by European powers during the 1884-85 Berlin Conference and in the subsequent Scramble for Africa.
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