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The Scramble for Africa: The Berlin Conference Divided
While previous episodes covered the brutal realities of the Congo Free State and the Pacific divisions, this episode turns its gaze to the room where it all happened. In November 1884, Otto von Bismarck gathered fourteen European powers and the United States in Berlin not to discuss trade or diplomacy, but to carve up a continent without inviting a single African leader into the room. We explore the concept of 'Effective Occupation'—a legal fiction that allowed empires to claim territory by signing treaties with local rulers they had never met, often using forged signatures or…
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