European powers discuss the terms on futher acquisition of territories in Africa without war.
They wanted to formulate rules for effective occupation of Africa.
They wanted to guarantee free access into the interior of Africa by trader, missionaries and other agents of all countries.
They wanted to sit down and see how legitimate trade should be promoted and slave trade suppress.
When Germany was defeated and ousted from her colonies, the colonies like Kamerun, Togoland and Tanoayika were seized from Germany and given to British and France as mandates of the League of Nation.