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The Economics of Colonialism Part 1- The British Empire

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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The Africans, the Africans and the British Colonialism

When the British arrived in Kenya, there were roughly four million African people. In 1930, another time of a sentence, it was two and a half million. A million and a half people vanished. Died. It cost them millions of lives. They never developed hardly anything. The only way they could live would be to work on the coffee estates of the British who had thrown out the Africans.

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