FACT CHECK · COLONIAL HISTORY AND AFRICA
Claim: The Scramble for Africa, in numbers
TRUETHE ANSWER
About 10% of Africa was under European control in the 1870s. The Berlin Conference ran 1884-85. By 1914 only Ethiopia and Liberia were outside European control; Italy occupied Ethiopia in 1936.
SOURCE
Wikipedia: Scramble for Africa
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