Was There an Objective Reason for the European Colonization of Africa?

Published: June 27, 2017, 8 a.m.

By the late 1800s Europe's Great Powers controlled nearly 80 percent of the African continent. Much research has analyzed the brutal aspects of its colonization\u2014particularly in the Belgian Congo\u2014but less on\xa0why\xa0Europe colonized Africa. Were the...