Why some areas in Africa experienced more intensive scramble than others?
The scramble for colonies in Africa was the intense competition or struggle for the control of African territories, which took place among the European capitalist nations in the 1880s and 1890s. Before the 1880s European countries were not much interested to establish colonialism in African continent, while they had only trade relationship with Africans and to spread Christianity religion. Also before the 19 th century European had no idea if African continent had other things to offer rather than forestry materials and slaves. During the scramble for and partition of Africa some areas experienced more scramble than others; this was due to the following factors: 1. Some areas were potential for agriculture; the objective of controlling African continent was for the exploitation of agriculture raw materials. European countries occupied areas with soil fertility and enough rainfall. Example of areas which were potential for agricultural raw materials includes Niger b...
