“The efficient accounting and business methods which are supposed to characterize capitalist firms did not drop from the sky. They are the result of historical evolution, and in that evolution the exploitation of Africa played a key role”

— Walter Rodney , book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 292.

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