Scramble for Africa
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The Scramble for Africa was the invasion, conquest, and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers, which were driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th and
Contemporary French advertising poster for a series of booklets detailing Major Marchand's trek across Africa toward Fashoda in 1898
David Livingstone, early explorer of the interior of Africa and fighter against the slave trade
The Askari colonial troops in German East Africa, c. 1906
An Italian Carabiniere and a Libyan colonial Zaptié patrolling in Tripoli, Italian Tripolitania, 1914
Liberia
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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Oce
Scramble for Africa
…were Angola and Mozambique, held by Portugal; the Cape Colony, held by the United Kingdom; and Algeria, held by France. By 1914, only Ethiopia and Liberia remained outside European control, with the former eventually being occupied by Italy in 1936 and the latter having strong connections with the United…
View of Monrovia in 1842
Residence of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia, between 1848 and 1852
African Americans depart for Liberia, 1896. The ACS sent its last emigrants to Liberia in 1904.
Charles D. B. King, 17th President of Liberia (1920–1930), with his entourage on the steps of the Peace Palace, The Hague (the Netherlands), 1927.