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Africa During the Scramble: Prodigal Sons

This article, and the last, were originally meant to be included in the liberia article as background but I had a lot to say so here we go. I do think its a bit scattershot as a result without clear conclusions but the alternative is a 15,000 word article.

You can normally work out which articles I'm researching by my posts in the pub and I had a nice conversation with @Thande about the Kongo deal when I first encountered it. One of the few things I learned while writing this series which I genuinely had no clue about it happening before hand and something I found fascinating.
 
Fantastic stuff as always Gary. Looking forward to the next one - will be interesting to compare Liberia's history with these nominally similar stories.
 
Going by that last paragraph, I suppose Ethiopia is the closest we came to an African country remaining independent throughout the colonial period, only disqualified by a few years under Mussolini?
 
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