The new scramble for Africa

This time, the winners could be Africans themselves. The first great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the “scramble”, was when 19th-century European colonists carved up the continent and seized Africans’ land. The second was during the cold war, when East and West vied for the allegiance of newly independent African states; the Soviet Union […] The post The new scramble for Africa appeared first on The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders.

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