29. The scramble for Africa was taken to the global stage by creating the Berlin Conference, a meeting of major countries… Africa was not invited.
The division of Africa into European colonies was discussed and agreed to during a formal conference in Berlin, attended by representatives of 13 European nations, plus the United States. There were no representatives from Africa. Although the push inland from the African coasts was already underway, and several of the nations represented at the conference already had bilateral agreements over the division of the continent, the Berlin Conference formalized European carving up of Africa. The conference agreed that under colonial rule all slavery practiced by natives in Africa would be ended, as well as among Islamic states and realms, as a means of justifying the forced colonization.