The African theatre of the First World War comprises campaigns in North Africa instigated by the German and Ottoman empires, local rebellions against European colonial rule and Allied campaigns agains
German trenches in Garoua, German Cameroon
Western Desert, 1914–1918
British artillery in Kamerun, 1915
Senegalese Tirailleurs in Kamerun, 1916
Berlin Conference
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa duri
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung
Press cartoon published in L'Illustration on 3 January 1885, showing German Chancellor Bismarck about to partition Africa
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in German newspaper Die Gartenlaube
Cartoon depicting Leopold II sharing the Congo