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CHAPTER 2 : THE BERLIN WEST AFRICAN CONFERENCE 1884-1885

HOW FAR DID THE CONFERENCE ACTIVE OF IT OBJECTIVE(SUCCES ACHIEVEMENT)
  • There was peaceful partition of Africa without war.
  • It achieve the abolition of slave trade and other inhuman practices.
  • Europeans adopted the effective occupation and developed establishment of plantation such as trading sectors, roads construction and other society aminities were provided.
  • It promoted cooperation amoung Europeans
  • It confirms king leopold  claims the congo which was handed to him as free state.
  • It let to the recognition of colonies that had already be secured before the conference.

FAILURES OF THE CONFERENCE

  • The conference failed guarantee freedom of trade and navigation in the Niger Basin.
  • Effective occupation was maintain only in the coastal areas. This created much tension until the Brussels conference of 1890.
  • Free access into the interior or by all European traders missionaries and explorers was not respected.
  • It failed to promote all aspect of a European cultivation such as the introduction of the European technology.
  • The conference failed to guarantee the hintherland because of not penentration started from the coast to the interior.
par Claude Foumtum
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