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European exploration of sub-Saharan Africa begins with the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, pioneered by the Kingdom of Portugal under Henry the Navigator. The Cape of Good Hope was first reached by Bartolomeu Dias on 12 March 1488, opening the important sea route to India and the Far East , but European exploration of Africa itself ...
In parts of Africa, particularly North Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, and Libya), trafficking immigrants to Europe has become more lucrative than drug trafficking. Undocumented migration to Europe often occurs by boat via the Mediterranean Sea , or in some cases by land at the Spanish Enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and has made international ...
Using a Marxist analysis, he analyses the modes of resource extraction and systematic underdevelopment of Africa by Europe. He concludes that the structure of present-day Africa and Europe can, through a comparative analysis be traced to the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. He includes an analysis of gender and states the rights of African ...
Post-colonialist historiography studies the relationship between European colonialism and domination in Africa and the construction of African history and representation. It has roots in Orientalism , the construction of cultures from the Asian , Arabian and North African world in a patronizing manner stemming from a sense of Western ...
The Scramble for Africa [a] was the invasion, conquest, and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century in the era of "New Imperialism": Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
[50] These arguments follow William Brian Arthur’s theories on path-dependency where he states that market lock-in to a subpar technology is determined by “small-event history”. [51] Thus, the colonial history in Africa becomes relevant as the decisions of European colonizers have impacted contemporary African economic and political ...
Regarding Africa-Europe relations see: African military systems (1800–1900) Colonisation of Africa. Scramble for Africa; Decolonisation of Africa; Economic history of Africa; British diaspora in Africa. British West Africa; East Africa Protectorate; History of Egypt under the British; Historiography of the British Empire; South Africa ...
Dhulbahante garesas were the first places to be airstriked in African history Areas controlled by European colonial powers on the African continent in 1914. Belgium. Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (today's Democratic Republic of the Congo) Ruanda-Urundi (comprising modern Rwanda and Burundi, between 1916 and 1960) France