Telephone Wiring Diagram

of how Europeans took what was not theirs ...

125 years ago the European powers divided up Africa ...



The Berlin conference initiated by this time in that year was the framework in which European representatives sat down, discussed, sought to solve on paper, maps in hand, the differences that could jeopardize the peace armed barely maintained stability in Europe. Featured

cartographers took the decisions handed down and drew on their maps by drawing new borders, establishing zones of influence, renaming territiorios limiting expansionist ambitions that meant conflict with neighboring powers ...

The notable absentees: Africans, who were not even invited to the party. Many of these boundaries drawn arbitrarily from the German capital last until today and define part of the weakness of some African states they see how many tribes lost their living space, ancient cultures were divided and separated peoples, historic enemies are forced to stand united with all that entails conflicts (recent genocides included).

In Berlin consummated the deal, one of the darkest stages of a Eurocentric history, a etnocetrismo that justified the territorial ambitions and economic power under the premises of an alleged civilizing and evangelizing zeal.

exploitation without limit of industrialized societies in their need to expand markets still seem viable to do a capitalist model "savage" humanism disguised ban explicit slavery dominated the continent.

Africa was privileged scenario of how the doctrines of geographical determinism and social Darwinism that justified an alleged racial superiority materialized.

Across the continent, Liberia and Ethiopia barely maintained their independence, military occupation and economic exploitation became the everyday, the extraction of wealth from Africa and other colonies enabled the bourgeois Belle Époque Europe, which in its cities the gains enjoyed by the sweat of the brow of his subjects.



With the Berlin Conference consolidated un imperialismo que igual entraría en crisis años después, pero cuyas secuelas sufrimos todos los que vivimos en las "economías periféricas".