The competition for countries in Africa compels other countries to join the race. According to the source “Partition of Africa, 1884-1885”, most of Africa seized or occupied by other countries. According to the source “John Ruskin, Lecture at Oxford University, February 8, 1870”, it states, “(England) must… found countries as fast and as far as she is able.... Seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground, she can set her foot on..” According to the source “Friedrich Fabri, Does Germany Need Colonies? 1879”, it says,”But should not the German nation who is fundamentally so very capable, so seaworthy, so industrially and commercially minded… successfully pave the way for this new course?”…