Explain the main social, political, and economic reasons why europeans wanted to colonize the african continent.

Europe wanted to colonize Africa during 1885-1910, the colonization of the entire continent lasted 25 years was a competition between European nations for the following factors:

Social factors: Industrialization brought to Europe social problems like unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and social displacement from rural areas, countries in Europe wanted to acquire new territories to send the surplus population they had that could not be absorbed in the new capital industry.

Political factors: African colonies added prestige, power and wealth European countries, the competition for the colonization of Africa was primarily between Britain, France and Germany, who were the strongest countries in the late 19th century.

Economical reasons:The main economical factor was that Africa was rich in  natural resources that European countries could trade and use in factories, they wanted exclusive access to this resources and in order to have exclusive access they needed political control in the area.

Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. ... The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social.

it provided for selection of government employees through competitive examinations. it also made it unlawful to fire or demote covered employees for political reasons or to require them to give political service or payment, and it set up a civil service commission to enforce the law.

explanation:

when a country suffers, for example, a drought period, the market product is affected for a low offer, in this case, potatoes; the government has to tax to the households, which have to give more money for the potatoes which they consume, that situation make them consume substitute goods even through loans, it could increase the financial market movement and the inflationary phenomena, the business has to increase salaries in order to the employees could buy a more expensive food (potatoes) and in order to inflation tha business had to buy expensive supplies in the factor market, while the rest of the world have to gain more money to consume the same amount of potatoes.