The conference’s proceedings, discussion and conclusions made clear that the continent’s rich resources and human labour were ...

This process became known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’. However, historians have recently started to refer to the events as the ‘Partition of Africa’ or the ‘Conquest of Africa’.

Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17620, October 2014.

The renewed scramble for Africa suggests the answer is yes. "How Africa's population evolves, and how the continent's economies develop, will affect nearly everything people near and far assume ...