Africa's resources fuel global rivalry as the African Union must lead in safeguarding sovereignty and development ...

This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’.

Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17620, October 2014.

The Horn countries have become the hub of this fresh imperialism, stimulated by two symbiotic forces, fear and interests. Fear and interests stimulated the 19th Century Scramble for Africa.