A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present
Reeves, Mark
Authors
Mark Reeves
Abstract
This chapter introduces the trope of the 1884-5 Berlin Conference as a 'carve-up' of Africa -- whether as a cake or a ham -- especially in the writing of Nigerian pan-Africanist and anti-colonialist Nnamdi Azikiwe. The chapter also discusses early pan-African responses to the Berlin Conference, before focusing on the middle of the 20th century, when anticolonial African nationalists and pan-Africanists repeatedly used Berlin as a metonym for partition on the continent. Finally, this chapter places that equation between ‘Berlin’ as a symbol of partition in a more global and comparative context.
Deposit Date
Feb 11, 2025
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed
Peer Reviewed
Book Title
Die Berliner Afrika-Konferenz 1884/85. Impulse zu einem umstrittenen globalen Ereignis
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