The document summarizes European colonization of Africa in the late 19th century. It describes how Western European powers controlled different regions of Africa, with the British dominating West Africa and Egypt, the French controlling North Africa, and Germany occupying territories in West and East Africa. It also discusses key figures that explored central Africa like David Livingstone and Henry Stanley, as well as the establishment of European colonies in regions like the Congo, South Africa, and territories divided between Britain and Germany in East Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85.