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How does Europe go from controlling only ten percent of the African continent in 1870 to controlling ninety percent by 1914? It's a long story, so let's break it down with some history in French West Africa, the industrial revolution, quinine medicine, a tyrannical Belgian king, and a meeting of White aristocrats in Berlin in 1884...
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How does Europe go from controlling only ten percent of the African continent in 1870 to controlling ninety percent by 1914? It's a long story, so let's break it down with some history in French West Africa, the industrial revolution, quinine medicine, a tyrannical Belgian king, and a meeting of White aristocrats in Berlin in 1884...