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The Berlin Conference: How Europe Carved Up Africa Without Africans
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference, where European powers—Germany, Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, and others—gathered to partition Africa without a single African present. They focus on the controversial figure of King Leopold II of Belgium, who manipulated the conference to secure the Congo Free State as his personal fiefdom. Lucas explains the 'effective occupation' clause, the principle of free trade on the Congo and Niger rivers, and how the conference formalized the Scramble for Africa, leading to decades of exploitation, arbitrary…
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