The European colonizers came to Africa and left the people of Africa with little to no land of their own. The colonizers held The Berlin Conference to discuss how they were going to divide Africa. The Berlin Conference was wrong because Africa had no representative in the conference. Meaning that the Africans had no say in how their country would be divided. Leading to that the Africans couldn't do anything to keep their land from being invaded. According to the Source 4, the leaders of the countries are slicing pieces of cake, which represents Africa, and handing it out to the leaders. The cake is represented as Africa and the colonizers are dividing the continent up into other countries. It shows how the Africa was negatively impacted because Africa is still divided even until this present day. The cartoon shows . …show more content…
The Europeans and Americans took all of Africa’s valuable resources in the Berlin Conference. According to Source 5 the two countries took all of their resources. The Europeans and Americans took all of the Africans gold. From the source the two countries had all of the gold and the continent of Africa is total gone. The two countries are left with all of their gold and resources. It symbolizes that the two countries had the most power in the Berlin Conference because the Berlin Conference was the dividing of Africa and the most powerful countries got the most land. Giving the other countries all of the resources lead to a high rate of poverty that still affect Africa today even for future times to come aswell. The poverty rate will also tie into the number of deaths in