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“Africa was never 'discovered'. Rather, it was Africans who found that there was a world beyond their shores.” — Dr. Leakey #BlackArchaeology ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
Sep 26, 2018 34 tweets 18 min read
How Europe Raped Africa

The Berlin conference of 1884 is where European colonising nations basically carved up Africa. Historians refer to it as “the scramble for Africa”.

#Africa #Europe #WhiteSupremacy The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, #France, #Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, #Russia, #Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), #Turkey, and the United States of #America.