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We Have Here, in Africa, Everything Necessary to Become a Powerful, Modern, and Industrialised Continent: The Fortieth Newsletter (2023) (thetricontinental.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's mostly natural resources, there is still a huge amount of natural resources in Africa exploited by western companies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In the mind of the coloniser, cheap labour is a natural resource, and both must be exploited fully