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The Scramble for Africa: How a Continent Was Carved Up Over Lunch

Fourteen nations met to divide Africa. No African was invited.

In 1884, fourteen nations met in Berlin to decide Africa's future. No African was invited. The rules they wrote that winter didn't just draw borders — they wrote the permission slip for the largest land grab in modern history.

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