At the end of the 19th century, the great European empires are the most powerful nations in the history of mankind. To fuel their growing industrial economies, they expand into Africa, settling, buying, and outright seizing whatever land they can.

In Britain, men like Cecil Rhodes dream of a united British African Empire extending “from Cape to Cairo.” In France, explorers like Jean-Baptiste Marchand aim to beat Britain to the punch, creating their own continent-spanning empire from Senegal to Djibouti. Meanwhile, in South Africa, the independent Boer republics are fighting their own battle against British imperialism.

WARNING: Some strong racial language.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter One: Flashback - The English Civil War – 00:04:08

Chapter Two: Why Else Was Victorian-Era Britain So Powerful? – 00:40:42

Chapter Three: The British Empire Enters Africa – 00:50:02

Chapter Four: The Rhodes Colossus – 01:28:53

Chapter Five: France Before the Scramble – 02:12:13

Chapter Six: The French Scramble for West Africa – 02:28:38

Chapter Seven: The Fashoda Incident – 02:50:57

Chapter Eight: Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Belgium – 03:13:09

Chapter Nine: A Brief History of Bismarck's Germany – 03:31:52

Chapter Ten: The Berlin Conference, Belgian Neutrality, and Germany's African Empire – 04:00:36

Chapter Eleven: The Second Boer War – 04:23:40

Chapter Twelve: The Siege of Kimberley – 04:41:20

Chapter Thirteen: The Empire Strikes Back – 05:08:04

Chapter Fourteen: Guerilla War in the Transvaal – 05:27:49

Chapter Fifteen: The End of the Scramble – 06:03:39

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