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Which statement best describes the "Scramble for Africa"?

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Abstract. The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European colonisers partitioned the – up to that point – largely unexplored African continent into protectorates, colonies and 'free-trade areas'
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