The 1884 Meeting That Drew Africa's Borders With a Ruler

Описание: Why do most of Africa's borders make no sense? In eighteen eighty four, fourteen European nations met in Berlin for three months and divided an entire continent. Not a single African was invited. They drew straight lines through deserts, created bizarre shapes like The Gambia and the Caprivi Strip, and forced hundreds of ethnic groups into artificial countries. One hundred forty years later, these borders remain the primary cause of conflict across Africa.
In this video, we examine:

The eighteen eighty four to eighty five Berlin Conference and the Principle of Effective Occupation that triggered the Scramble for Africa
How King Leopold the Second turned the Congo into personal property, leading to approximately ten million deaths
Why Nigeria, with over two hundred fifty ethnic groups, was forced into one country for British economic convenience
How Belgian colonizers invented rigid ethnic categories in Rwanda that directly caused the nineteen ninety four genocide
The economic legacy of extraction, why African railways only connect mines to ports, and how the African Continental Free Trade Area aims to overcome colonial fragmentation

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