Forji Amin, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3087-0296 (2023) Public Law Arrangements : The Pursuit for Free Trade, the Berlin Conference 1884–1885 and the Partition of Africa. In: Forji Amin, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3087-0296, (ed.) International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa. Routledge

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Abstract

European rivalries in the scramble for Africa culminated in concerns over how to institute an international free trade and navigation regime in sub-Saharan Africa that would benefit all competing countries. With the intensification of rivalries, European statesmen began envisaging the need for imminent remedies to guarantee an international free trade regime and the right of passage over Africa’s strategic regions. The goals of the conference were set along three cardinal points: how to effectively respond to European non-state acquisitions across Africa, the resolution of conflicting claims surrounding the Congo basin and the formalisation of annexation rules for all future acquisitions. Articles 1–3 of the General Act of the Berlin Conference specifically dealt with liberalisation of free trade in the Congo basin, converting the region into an international regime. One of the most noteworthy items from the 1884 Berlin Conference proceedings was the invocation of over 450 cession treaties supposedly signed between Henry Morton Stanley and African rulers in Congo region.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.4324/9781003265740-6
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DT Africa J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration J Political Science > JX International law J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KZ Law of Nations
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/13652

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