A number of factors drove the Scramble for Africa. Primary motivations included competition among European powers, nationalist movements fueling imperial expansion, and the quest for economic profits, from both the extraction of natural resources in the colonies and the potential market expansion into the colonies. There was also a widely held belief in racial superiority among European societies, which was often used to justify colonization efforts as “civilizing missions.”
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