"Scramble for Africa is based on a conference that was held in Berlin in 1884 to 1885. The European countries came together to divide up Africa to decide who would have which trading area. So I re-imagined it with these brainless men sitting around the table—literally brainless. They're having this meeting and deciding the fate of Africa." Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003) above
Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003) map
Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003) hands
Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003) back
Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003) installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in 2008
Willem Blaeu, Africae nova descriptio (Amsterdam, c.1635)
Herman Moll, Map of Africa (1710)
John Cary, A New Map of Africa (1805)
Afrique - La Grande encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, par une société de savants et de gens de lettres (Paris, 1886-1902)
Unknown artist (France), Berlin Conference of 1884-85 (c.1885)
H Lüders, Die westafrikanische Conferenz in Berlin (Die Gartenlaube, 1884)
Edward Linley Sambourne, The Rhodes Colossus (Punch, 10 December 1892)
