Africa/Germany: Romanticised German view of the 'Scramble for Africa'. Illustrated cover by Hugo Gerard Strohl (24 September 1851 - 7 December 1919) for Amand von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld's (17 May 1846 - 24 August 1910) 'Afrika', 1886. The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa or Partition of Africa, was a process of invasion, occupation, colonisation and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and World War I in 1914.

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