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The relationship between capitalism and colonialism. My points: *Pre-colonial African societies were never capitalist. *Commercial activities ≠ Capitalism. *Africa is capable of developing indigenous ideas to fight capitalism, without necessarily adopting outside ideas, since the continent knew and practiced the alternatives before colonialism.

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