MILITARY CONQUEST DOES NOT BRING ECONOMIC CONTROL

THE POWER OF LOCAL SLAVE-BASED PRODUCTION BLOCKS SALES OF WESTERN GOODS  

Take textiles, the most important export of the manufacturers who back conquest: Why should locals substitute flimsy manufactured cloth when they could have for this...

Embroidery, a royal ornamentation.

Or this:

Alamy photos: zoom 

 

Haussa weaving 

 

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The colonial powers never do 

take over the African market,

which goes to the Dutch with the

 dramatic prints that Ghanaian soldiers

in Indonesia bring home. 

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