here is your Africa true story How the West is taking over Africa's minds and
natural resources in the new Scramble for Africa sovereignty was a key axis
of anti-colonial struggles and early post-independent politics especially
over each country's own resources which had been plundered by the global North under colonialism
today after the early post-independent projects have been derailed by neoliberalism Dynamics
similar to colonialism persists with Africa's natural resources being safe and off by the global
North and African economies left economically dependent on primary commodity exports
prior to colonialism the countries of Africa were economically politically and sociologically
structured organically around their internal needs and demands meeting internal materials and Social
Challenges this is not to say these societies were devoid of internal contradictions conflict
between them or engagement with the wider World indeed trade routes certainly extended beyond
the continent but on the whole the economic structure and relationships that developed
were shaped by Dynamics and demands within African societies this was forcefully appended with the
onset of colonialism as Africa's economies were extroverted destroyed and fragmented a
new structure was put in place in which African economies were interested in the global economic
order as providers of raw materials for the development of other countries basically for
Imperial Europe This has relegated the vast majority of the continent to a politically
economical structure of primary commodity export dependence with this structure African countries
became dependent on the export of small basket of barely processed minerals Timber and agricultural
products including cocoa coffee bananas and Etc as raw materials to feed the industries of the
global North in return Africa became dependent for their consumption needs of the Imports of the
goods manufactured in the north most often made using African raw materials [Music]
this enforced an equal exchange of unprocessed so-called low value raw materials for high value
process Goods has become the basic mechanism of an equal economic relationship between Africa
and the advanced industrial capitalist North and the means of continued appropriation of
the wealth created in Africa by the north this undermines the accumulation of wealth in Africa
and its reinvestments for renewing upgrading and expanding productive capabilities of the society
on the continent and therefore of the ability to meet the changing needs of the people on the
contrary African countries and opportunities for their people have become trapped in Misfortune
having little control of Commodities in the global market from which the raw materials come from
beneath the surface of Africa lays a wealth of mineral resources of enormous value in 2019 the
continent produced 1 billion tons of minerals worth 406 billion US Dollars according to the
United Nations Africa is also home to about 30 percent of the world's minerals reserves
12 percent of the world's oil and eight percent of the world's natural gas reserves the continent
also holds 40 percent of the world's gold and up to 90 percent of its chromium and platinum
both valuable metals today Western companies control Africa skin mineral resources notably
gold platinum diamond copper oil gas and coal research shows that more than 171
Western companies have mining operations in 37 sub-Saharan African countries they collectively
control over one trillion dollars worth of Africa's most valuable resources Western
governments have used their powers and influence to make sure mining companies have access to
Africa's raw materials this was the case during the colonial period and is the case till today
under the guise of helping Africa in its Economic Development a mere continuation of the colonial
paternal narrative 134 billion reportedly flows into the continent each year in the form of loans
foreign investments and aid but at the same time an estimated 192 billion dollars is extracted from
Africa mainly in the form of profits by Foreign companies tax dodging and the cost of adapting
to climate change in short the continent is a net creditor to the rest of the world to the tune of
as much as 58 billion dollars a year the current phase of the Scramble for African resources is a
clear continuation of the post-independent African exploitation then as now access to raw material is
a major factor often the major factor in the western foreign policy towards the continent
today's African's natural resource wealth is being appropriated by Foreign private interests
whose operations are living a devastating trail of social environmental and human rights abuses
in their wake in response communities affected by mining in sub-Saharan Africa are calling for
mining revenues to stay in their country where they are mined for raw materials to be processed
in their country where they are mined thereby adding value and for governments to act to protect
people affected by mining rather than protecting the profit margins of Corporations exploiting them
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