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The Scramble for Africa: How a Conference Drew Borders That Still Bleed
When European diplomats sat down in Berlin in 1884–85 to carve up Africa, not a single African voice was present. This episode unpacks the Berlin Conference not as a footnote, but as a seismic event that rewired the continent. Lucas and Luna trace how Otto von Bismarck hosted a party of fourteen powers, how King Leopold II of Belgium bamboozled the room into handing him the Congo Free State as a personal fief, and how the principle of 'effective occupation' turned a map-drawing exercise into a bloody land grab. They explore the role of Henry Morton Stanley as Leopold's man on…
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