The "Randlords" up from the Cape openly plotted otherwise. A scene from the Scramble for Africa A number of territories in Africa, quarreled over by European nations that cynically carved them up ...

Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17620, October 2014.

The Horn countries have become the hub of this fresh imperialism, stimulated by two symbiotic forces, fear and interests. Fear and interests stimulated the 19th Century Scramble for Africa.

For the United States, Turkey’s maneuver should serve as a wake-up call. While the Horn of Africa is sometimes sidelined in U ...

This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’.