Colonization of the African continent began in the early
1800s--mostly begun by Christian missionaries--and reached fever pitch after the
mid-1800s, leading to the 1884-1885 West African Conference in Berlin organized by Otto
von Bismark, the German chancellor, which initiated the era of New Imperialism. If your
first time period is "where they colonize Africa," then you've covered a goodly span of
the 19th century and early 20th century.
A second time
period would be when Joseph Conrad wrote and published Heart of
Darkness. Conrad wrote the short novel in 1890 and it was published in
Victorian England in 1899 in London in Blackwood's Magazine.
Conrad, a naturalized English citizen originally having Polish citizenship, was sent on
a mission up the Congo to rescue a colony agent just as he relays in his story, which
was structured with an innovative narratorial technique.
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