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
Africa
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total
Ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which flourished in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries
Africa seen from the Moon on The Blue Marble photograph, 1972
Lake kariba
The savanna of Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania