Berlin Conference Effects On Africa

I think that the main effects that the Berlin Conference had on Africa was the splitting and dividing of African people and culture, and the slavery and segregation that is still seen today. When all different countries took over different parts of land, it split people apart from their fellow tribes / families, and in a way destroyed a lot of African culture. In many parts of Africa today, people talk french or english. Even though that can be viewed in a positive way, that isn't the way that it was suppose to be. The slavery and segregation is one of the harsher and more everlasting effects. When the white men came to Africa and claimed their territories, they also claimed the people in those territories as well, and made them work and treat them as inferiors. Then when they took Africans over to make them work in America, that made the situation double and hints of racism are still seen a lot over the world, and unfortunately to say, the United States as well.