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Why weren’t Europeans able to successfully colonize Africa in the 16 th , 17 th , and 18 th centuries?

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Low world prices for primary produce during the depression years from the 1870s to the mid-1890s certainly caused difficulties for Europeans trading to western Africa and led them to think that an increase in European control there would enable them to secure its produce more cheaply.

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