Zimbabwe Under the British Empire: The History of Great Britain’s Colonization and Decolonization Before the Country’s Independence

"The White Man's conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912"--Jacket subtitle. The scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was still ruled by Africans and barely explored. By 1902, five European powers had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and protectorates. This is the history of this episode *the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa