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According to South African economist Nthabiseng Moleko, Africans are not fixing the price of our resources, and as a result, we remain excluded from the economy. Colonial powers structured African economies around extracting raw materials for export to manufacture finished products in places like Europe. Then, we imported those goods at high costs. This continues to this day, making Africa vulnerable to global price fluctuations. While we don\u2019t like the term \u2018sub-Saharan,\u2019 the World Bank\u2019s 2022 report showed that \u2018sub-Saharan Africa\u2019 exported $133.5 billion in raw materials in 2021 alone. Meanwhile, it imports more than $469 billion worth of goods. Welcome as we talk about this and more

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