The Fashoda Incident... known as the Fashoda Crisis, was the climatic event caused by years of territorial disputes in Africa, between France and Great Britain. In essence, this European obsession with the African continent began in the 1670s, which ended in partition of the entire continent by 1895. For this reason, the crisis at Fashoda (Kodok) in Egyptian Sudan, on September 18, 1898, proved to be a matter of national honor, with imperialists on both sides figuring out if their dominance of the African continent was at stake.