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unusual facts about Scramble for Africa



Jur River

In 1897–98 the Jur River was carefully surveyed throughout its course by Lieutenant A.H. Dyé and other members of a French mission under Jean-Baptiste Marchand during the Scramble for Africa.

Luapula Province border dispute

Following the 1889 Berlin conference and the ensuing Scramble for Africa by European powers, there was considerable interest by the Belgians, the Germans and the British in Southern and Central Africa to secure the area that covered the 4 Great Lakes namely, Lake Nyasa, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

Nana Olomu

The relations between the two were peaceful until the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and the ensuing Scramble for Africa, which led the British to try to bypass the Itsekiri middlemen so as to trade directly with the Urhobo people.

Ronald Baipidi

In a meeting of Union leaders at an economic workshop on trade and related issues in 2007 Baipidi likened the European Union Economic Partnership Agreements to another Scramble for Africa, accusing the plan as a means of underdevelopment in Africa.

White Nile

The Bahr al Jabal passes through Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which is the southernmost navigable point on the Nile river system, and then to Kodok, the site of the 1898 Fashoda Incident that marked an end to the 'Scramble for Africa'.


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