Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of traditional African life. In many parts of the continent, vital aspects of culture were adversely affected, nothing better was substituted, and only a lifeless shell was left.


p. 366. - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)

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Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of traditional African life. In many...

Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of traditional African life. In many...

Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of traditional African life. In many...

Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of traditional African life. In many...