ABSTRACT
The story of Africa’s problems, challenges, and opportunities, past, present and future, has been largely told from a perspective which blames Africa and Africans for their circumstances. Enslavement, slave trade, colonialism, the operations of extractive industries in Africa, and the data economy are very complex and multifaceted phenomenon. While depositing many positive aspects in Euro-North America, the industrial revolutions deposited their toxic waste, negative and darker side in Africa and other parts of the colonised world. In intra-Africa slavery, slaves were not traded, they were not moved from their geographies and shipped thousands of kilometres away. However, parallels exist between intra-Africa slavery and the European and American slave trade. Euro-North America excludes Scandinavia, Canada, Eastern Europe, Portugal, and Spain. This background, together with the victory of the allied powers in the Second World War, is the brief history of how men from another set of five countries came to dominate global affairs.
