it provided aa ready market for goods and cheap labour as well as raw materials
A competition between European imperial powers to control Africa
Africa experienced violence before, during and after European colonial powers ruled. So, no.
Imperialism
The European Partitoning was a result of the Berlin conference. this was wen Africa was divided by the European powers.
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Africa
The scramble for Africa
The English, the French, and the Dutch, although none of Africa is currently colonized.
Because they wanted the natural resources that was in Africa.
The European powers wanted control of the vast natural resources of Africa. To be in actual control of the government was not a motivating factor but this was needed in order for one European country to keep other European countries out.
The motivations for the scramble for Africa was to obtain resources and labor for European countries. There were tensions because of competition among the European powers.
Several European powers colonized Africa, with the most prominent being Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. Spain also had a presence in Africa, although less significant compared to the others. Notably, Liberia and Ethiopia were never colonized by European powers, with Liberia established by freed American slaves and Ethiopia successfully resisting colonization during the Scramble for Africa.