The scramble for Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1884 -- where, quite frankly, we Africans were not exactly consulted --   -- resulted in massive fragmentation and many sovereign states with small populations: Liberia, four million; Cape Verde, 500,000.
1884年的柏林会议上对非洲的争夺， ——实话说，我们非洲人民的意见 就没有被征询过——  这导致了非洲大规模的“碎片化”， 产生了许多人口较少的主权国家： 利比里亚，400万人口； 佛得角，50万人口。