Partition of Africa (Dystopia)

The Partition of Africa or Scramble for Africa was a major event which occured from the 1870s until the early 1900s. The Race for land on the continent mainly started with the Portuguese colonization of the south bank of the Congo River, the French seizure of Morocco, and the Anglo-Zulu War. The Partition originted in the 1830s when the British started to construct the Suez Canal for ships to pass from India to Britain without travelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The race truly heated up when the United States in 1871 after the devastating Civil War it had declared Liberia a US Territory for shipping blacks and people of color who wanted to go back to the continent. It also increased rapidly with French wars in Algeria, Morocco, and West Africa in the mid-1870s. It finally increased with the two South African conflicts fought by Britain. The first was the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 in which the last major tribal native empire in Africa was defeated.