The European Carve Up Of Africa

In this date in 1885 an agreement was signed in Berlin
 then in newly unified Germany, now an imperial power
where fourteen countries agreed with each other 
 how to divide up an entire continent between themselves,
and remove from the natives of these former trade outposts
all sense of autonomy and self rule.
These countries were The USA, Austria/Hungary,
The UK, France, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden/Norway,
and Russia, who between them agreed that their greed
should surpass all historic human expectation.
Such that nearly 140 years after the agreement was signed
the continent of Africa remains maimed and blamed
for it's poor self government when how it has recovered
is nothing short of miraculous.