On the record
In black Africa today only one-seventeenth of the land and a ninth of the people in Liberia and Abyssinia are approximately independent, although menaced and policed by European capitalism.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “In black Africa today only one-seventeenth of the land and a ninth of the people in Liberia and Abyssinia are…”
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Du Bois critiques the limited independence of African nations under European control, highlighting the impact of capitalism.
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