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What was the scramble for africa?

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The Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa, Conquest of Africa, , was the invasion, occupation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by a handful of European powers during a short period known to historians as the New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914).

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