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How did European colonization help create African countries where national unity was difficult?

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Colonialism made African colonies dependent by introducing a mono- cultural economy for the territories. It also dehumanized African labor force and traders. It forced Africans to work in colonial plantations at very low wages and displaced them from their lands.

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