The Berlin conference: Africa plundered – Jackson Advocate

The Berlin conference: Africa plundered – Jackson Advocate

By Dr. James E. Sulton Jr. JA International Correspondent The seminal event leading to the partition of Africa, as well as endless wars and divisions that followed, was the Conference of Berlin in 1884-85. That summit of European heads of state, convened by Otto von Bismarck, was the most consequential political development in modern African history.  The deliberations there began two centuries of colonial and neocolonial exploitation. The Berli…