Paper 1 · Africa and Decolonisation
Which of the following countries was not represented at the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885?
AEthiopia
BGermany
CPortugal
DBelgium
Explanation: The conference was called by Bismarck and attended by the European powers together with the United States and Turkey. No African state took part, which is the point of the meeting: Africa was divided by outsiders without a single African ruler in the room.
Derived from ZIMSEC History Paper 1, June 2019, Q8