- The Europeans powers go were go for colonie to Africa because they wanted to spread Christianity.
- The European powers wanted to spread their culture and civilization to the African people who were considered backword and uncivilized.
- The European powers also has an important motive to surpress the slave trade and other inhuman practices such as killing of twins, worshiping of idiols
- Europeans powers also wanted to secure extra living space for their growing population.
- European powers like Portugal scramble for Africa because they wanted to use Africa.
- The desire for Europeans to create a variety of fruits,vegetables and other items in Afica inorder to feed their growing population encouraged the scramble.
- Europeans also wanted to acquire territories in Africa because of pressure from scientist and tourist who wanted to acquire areas so that they could carry out scientific research and discoveries
POLITICAL REASONS
- Most Europeans powers scramble for Africa for prestigious reasons . The greatness of a European power was measured by the size of it overseas territories.
- Also the search for territorial compensation in Africa provoked scramble e.g; France wanted to compensate the lost of Africa of Alsace Lorraine, when she lost the franco-prussian war.
- The colaps of strong African empire such as songhan, Ghanan opened the way of the scramble for Africa.
- The berlin conference on colonization held between 1884/1885 encouraged the scramble because it laid down the rules for acquiring territories in Africa.
- The Italians and the germans had, their reunification there by solving some of the major domestic problems they had. This encourages them to get into the colonial raise there by encouraging the scramble.
HOW DID INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ENCOURAGE THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
- Industrial revolution facilitated the scramble for Africa in the following ways.
- It led to the production of morden zeapons which the Europeans used in suppressing African resisitances.
- The revolution led to the production of quinine in 1857 which protected the Europeans against malaria in Africa .
- The revolution improved the mean of transport especially in 1875 when the streamship was inverted
- The revolution generated the money and goods which were used as brides and gifts to the African chiefs.
