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Write a critique on the partition of Africa from 1870 to 1914, with particular reference to Germany’s imperial designs in the Continent.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

The Scramble for Africa (1870–1914), which took the continent from roughly 10 percent to 90 percent under European control, cannot be understood without Germany's improbable and ultimately self-defeating role in it.

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