Many of us believe that Africans had no guns or technology when they first encountered the whites. Thus, although the Africans fought back, the colonization of Africa by the French, British, Germans, Belgians, Portuguese and Italians –known as the ”Scramble for Africa”-was quick and easy because of this technological mismatch . This is simply not true. Perhaps the most surprising fact that emerges from studying these records is that 80-95% of these European armies were composed of Black African