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Global hotel brands battle it out for a piece of Africa

A model of Nairobi Global Trade Centre. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

In 1884, European powers met in Berlin, Germany, and began looking to Africa as a source of raw materials and a market for their growing industries.

In what came to be known as the “Scramble and Partition of Africa,” they divided the continent among themselves.

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