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By Collins Okeke.Long before the Scramble for Africa was formalized at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, Europe had already spent nearly four centuries perfecting the extraction model in Asia. Vasco da Gama’s arrival on India’s Malabar coast in 1498 opened a sea route that Portuguese, then Dutch, then British merchants used to insert themselves into trade networks that had functioned for centuries without them. The Dutch East India Company, chartered in 1602, and the British East India Company,
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