190: 1919 – Africa II

The ruins of Great Zimbabwe, in modern-day Zimbabwe.

During the late war, Africa had been both a source of soldiers and a theater of conflict. Yet when the war was over, European powers meant to divide up the German colonies among the victors and continue with business as usual in Africa.

Liberals hoped that the new system of mandates would mark a change from the old way of doing things, while the Communists declared Africans oppressed victims of Western capitalism.

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