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African oligarchs built the same wealth plundering structures as colonialists [pdf]
- mannykannot 9y agoIn many cases, did the oligarchs not simply take over the colonialists' enterprises, often with the cooperation of the former colonialists, who continued to make considerable profits themselves? One of the techniques of colonialism was to put a local ethnic or social group in a position to profit from colonialism, and so have a vested interest in perpetuating it. Such groups were sometimes the seed of the post-colonial oligarchy, if they could hold on to power.