Lhe Berlin conference, held from November 1884 to February 1885, was organized by Chancellor Bismarck in order to establish the rules which were to govern the colonization of Africa. British, French, Germans, Belgians, Portuguese, Italians embarked on the interior of Africa, which was shared by Europeans in less than fifteen years, at the cost of wars against the African kingdoms which ended up being defeated ...
The balkanization of Africa was done in contempt of peoples, cultures and languages by an anarchic division of the colonial powers. Colonization was imposed by force: A new religion was imposed, a new language was imposed, a new culture was imposed ... The identity of the African people gradually dissolved, to the point that they did not surrender. account and put up with it.