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Financial Empire w/ Daniela Gabor & Ndongo Samba Sylla
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The African Currency and the World System of Development
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A dongo's book, africa's last colonial currency takes up pretty centrally. In the book, a number of monitary systems get described that had been place in african economic networks which predated and overlapped with european conquests. So how did these older monetary systems work? How were community relationships maintained by cowry base commerce different from what became possible as the french empire expanded its economic influence?
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