The period usually labelled 'From colonialism to the First World War' runs from the:

1. The label marks the era of formal colonial occupation in Africa. 2. The scramble for Africa gathered pace in the 1880s, which opens the period. 3. It closes in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War. 4. So the conventional span is the 1880s to 1914. _Source: NECTA ACSEE 2023 History 112/1, Question 4: From Colonialism to the First World War_