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Britain and the Scramble for East Africa


Britain and the Scramble for East Africa - LSE Blogs

' Specifically, that Britain had colonised these territories in order to control the sources of the Nile so as to maintain its hold over Egypt, ...

The Scramble for East Africa: British Motives Reconsidered, 1884–95

This article re-examines the partition of East Africa. It first outlines the existing historiography, namely the dominant geo-strategic Nile model.

British East Africa | Colonialism, Imperialism, Protectorates - Britannica

British East Africa, territories that were formerly under British control in eastern Africa—namely Kenya, Uganda, and Zanzibar and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) ...

Scramble for Africa - Wikipedia

The Scramble for Africa was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution ...

The scramble for Africa - The British Empire - KS3 History - BBC

Thousands of Africans were killed by European forces as each nation claimed the territory they decided was theirs. This process became known as the 'Scramble ...

Africa - History of the British Empire (1815-1914)

Britain had some small colonial holdings in Africa by the early 1800s, but did not begin taking territory in earnest until the so-called Scramble for Africa in ...

East Africa campaign | National Army Museum

During the First World War, British Empire soldiers fought a four-year guerrilla campaign against a small German force in East Africa.

Scramble for Africa | Summary, Meaning, Maps, Reasons, End ...

Scramble for Africa, a phrase widely used to refer to the period from the late 19th to the early 20th century in which European imperial ...

Great Britain and the 'Scramble for Africa' - Gresham College

The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed parts of the continent divided amongst the Great Powers. Great Britain concentrated ...

East Africa - Away from the Western Front

The campaign in East Africa was a showdown between the British, Belgian and Portuguese Empires on the one side and German Empire on the other.

Abolition and European Imperialism in East Africa, 1845-1893

British Naval Blockade of the East African coast ... The British faced significant obstacles in their attempts to control the slave trade; ...

Britain's scramble for Africa's energy and mineral resources

The report reveals the degree to which British companies now control Africa's key mineral resources, notably gold, platinum, diamonds, copper, oil, gas and ...

British History in depth: Slavery and the 'Scramble for Africa' - BBC

British activity on the West African coast was centred around the lucrative slave trade. European ships took more than 11 million people into ...

British Colonies in Africa | Overview, History & Imperial Figures

From 1880-1900 Britain gained control over or occupied what are now known as Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, northwestern ...

European Rivalry over Africa - History: From One Student to Another

Britain and Germany had a rivalry over Zanzibar and East Africa as Britain. While the British were interested in it for cloth, manufactured goods and raw ...

British colonialism in East-Africa during nineteenth century

In East-Africa Britain‟s trade was considerably less than on the ... satisfactory agreements with little difficulty, which was called „Scramble of Africa‟.

29 Britain and the Scramble for Africa - Oxford Academic

From the beginning the historiography of the British role in the Scramble for Africa was a controversy between apologists for expansion and their critics, ...

(PDF) The Scramble for East Africa, 1884-95 - ResearchGate

The partition of East Africa has long been heralded as the definitive example of late-Victorian grand strategy, a result of British attempts at safeguarding ...

The Scramble for Africa - The British Empire

In 1893 the British government took over the administration of east Africa from the IEAC and established protectorates in Uganda (1884) and Kenya (1885). In ...

Kenya Colony - Wikipedia

The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa, was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until 1963.