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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Stop the Berlin Conference! (ft. Chinny Ukata & Astrid Madimba from It's a Continent)
Description: Berlin, 1884. Fourteen European nations are sitting around a table carving up an entire continent like a Christmas turkey, and Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba from It's a Continent podcast have been sent back to stop them. The Berlin Conference was the moment European powers gave themselves the green light to colonise Africa, drawing borders with rulers and zero consultation. No African representatives were invited. Chinny and Astrid are here to correct that.
Their approach starts from a simple insight: the European nations were already in conflict with each other, so fan those flames and they can't agree...