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The Meeting That Divided Africa | The Berlin Conference of 1884 Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your entire continent had been divided… not by war, not by negotiation… but by strangers thousands of miles away. In the winter of 1884, powerful leaders gathered in Europe to make decis…

The Meeting That Divided Africa | The Berlin Conference of 1884 Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your entire continent had been divided… not by war, not by negotiation… but by strangers thousands of miles away. In the winter of 1884, powerful leaders gathered in Europe to make decisions that would reshape Africa forever. Inside a room in Berlin, they unfolded a map of Africa… and began drawing borders. Borders that still exist today. Long before European powers arrived, Africa