Mad scramble for Africa

• Who dominated the Swahili coast and when?

  The Omani sultanate from the Arabian peninsula in the 17th century
• what was new about the mad scramble for africa?

  direct rule over wider territory rather than informal economic dominance over specific areas of the cost.

  new military technologies facilitated conquest.
• who were the Senegalese tiraileurs?

  Senegalese soldiers who helped french conquest