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by malthejorgensen 1958 days ago
Colonialism still exists in the form of lopsided trade economics.

Most of Africa is not able to trade freely with EU, creating a favorable economic situation for the EU. I'm not sure the milk example is a good one, but historically (post-colonialism) most value gained from mining in Africa has been gained by companies in the EU -- not much value gained for the African countries and citizens. This is due to the lopsided trade agreements but also corporate exploitation of the African countries.

The African countries needs our help in the form of proper free-trade agreements, and in the form of us not meddling with their natural resources.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_free-trade_a...