The Scramble for Africa is an important moment in world history that demonstrated the beginning of a great transformation for Africans. The increase in European claims to African territories during the period of new imperialism reflected Europe's economic, social, and military evolution. The early 1880s allowed Europeans to dominate a small part of Africa with areas largely limited to the coast and small inland areas along major rivers such as the Niger and Congo. Knowing the causes of the Scramble for Africa will lead to understanding Europe's perception of superiority and the duty to spread Western civilization across the world, which will also lead us to this discussion on the effects of such an event on Africa. Only ten percent of the African continent was under the control of Western nations in the early 1800s before Europeans decided to expand and increase their influence in Africa. The economic potential of the European empire was isolated by keeping its markets open and exclusive through trade policies that increased revenues and natural resources and by maintaining the trade routes to Asia that made the Horn of the Africa, the southern tip of the continent as well as West Africa. rub shoulders with the best strategic places for controlling the world. Britain aimed for a territory within the continent to dominate the north and south by connecting Cairo to the Cape, as all territories between Cairo in the north and Cape Town in the south have strategic value. The African continent was devoid of fixed borders and familiar types of government, seen as empty by Europeans and therefore ripe for the imposition of their authority. Europeans established themselves on most of the territory of the occupation to definitively eliminate Portugal's claims to half of the African coastline. Germany's aggressiveness in signing treaties affirming German protectorates also alarmed Britain and began to move away from its traditional practice of reluctance to establish political control due to its high cost in money and resources. men, in order to leave commercial matters in the hands of the merchants as much as possible. The British government acted recognizing the danger to British trade and the government's duty to protect that trade even with the extension of political responsibility and all its money. Britain, in its race for Africa, gained much territory in West Africa, maintaining its goal of having enough influence to ensure that no British interests were discriminated against in favor of those from another power..