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Thus began the mad “Scramble for Africa”, as it would later be called. Great Britain, Portugal, France, Germany, and King Leopold II of Belgium began sending scouts to secure trade and sovereignty ...

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The first was political, as European powers, starting with King Leopold II of Belgium, sought to exploit Africa's resources. The second was ideological, designed by Belgium, the Vatican ...

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and Nicholas Harris In 1879, shortly before the 1884 Berlin Conference let loose the “scramble for Africa”, King Leopold of Belgium, the most brutal of the colonial ...