A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
The Scramble for Africa White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.