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Berlin Conference 1884: Everyone Was Invited Except Africa
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Writing about the Berlin Conference, I kept returning to the same detail: fourteen nations negotiated the division of Africa for four months, and not a single African representative was present. It wasn't an oversight. It was deliberate indifference. Africa's peoples were the subject of the negotiation, not participants in it. The map they produced — the "Effective Occupation" doctrine and the straight-line borders — outlasted empires. Most of those lines are still there. Worth thinking about whose absence from a table shapes everything that follows.
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