“Europeans were anxious to acquire gold in Africa because there was a pressing need for gold coin within the growing capitalist money economy.”

—  Walter Rodney, book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 119.

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