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Coverage: 1870-1914
This primary source database documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Sourced from libraries in the U.K. and France, it includes archives, diaries, logbooks, minutes, official records, petitions, and telegrams, along with maps, photographs, and film footage.
From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers in the early ninteenth century; to the rise in European desire for increased power, empire and wealth culminating in the Belin Conference 1885-1886; to the subsequent power struggles, negotiations and conflicts that raged across the continent at the turn of the twentieth century, documents included chart Africa's encounters with European imperialist regimes and their impact on the lives of peoples across the continent.
