Michael McEachrane, the UN rapporteur of the permanent forum on people of African descent, who helped organise a joint European Commission and European parliament event commemorating the abolition of slavery on Tuesday, said this Wednesday:
“No historical period has had a more profound effect on shaping the world and its social and international orders than 500 years of European colonialism and imperialism.
By the 1930s, nearly 90% of the world had been colonised by European countries.
Consider how it has shaped the largely extractive relationship of developed countries to developing countries.”
- I couldn't agree more.
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