Otto Von Bismarck | Berlin | Germany
In 1884/5
European leaders met at the Berlin Conference to divide Africa and
arbitrarily draw up borders that exist to this day. Representatives
of 13 European states, the United States of America and the Ottoman
Empire converged on Berlin at the invitation of German Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck to divide up Africa among themselves "in
accordance with international law". Africans were not invited to
the meeting. The arbitrary division of the continent among European
powers, which ignored African laws, culture, sovereignty and
institutions, led to many decades of slavery, murder and rape of
African cultures as well as many genocides such as the Namas and
Herero`s committed by German troops. The Berlin Conference and the
following consequences was a crime against humanity.
