The main goal of the berlin conference of 1885 was to

The main goal of the Berlin Conference of 1885 was to partition Africa. This occurred as Germany became a European superpower under Otto Von Bismarck and the conference held under the ideas of regulating European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism Era. This was part of the larger Scramble for Africa.

it affected it because the kingdoms (with trade) slowly got richer and richer.