Africa: 134 Years After the Berlin Conference, Africa Needs to Save Herself

Why do African leaders still maintain the colonial structures of the Berlin Conference? It's 134 years since the conference that changed the whole continent. The solution to the problems Africa faces, which stem from the Berlin Conference, is in the hands of Africans.

Without the participation of a single African representative, European nations came together under the Berlin Conference in 1884 and divided Africa between themselves. Since that day, the language, culture, identity, religion and space that existed as Africa was totally changed. The continent was invaded by imperialists who came bearing arms and punitive armies, declaring lands in the name of the Her Majesty the Queen, and other Imperialist such as King Leopold, causing untold destruction in the name of the King of Belgium. The land the colonisers claimed to have discovered was connected, they introduced borders. The fight for a borderless Africa has now been the centre of attention to promote trade and movement within the continent.

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