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The looting of Africa was not only a military or colonial violence. It was also an economic, legal, administrative, financial and symbolic engineering.
This episode analyses the mechanisms by which African wealth has historically been captured, organized, transferred and legitimized. Trade, colonization, mining, concessions, export-oriented infrastructure, asymmetric contracts and monetary dependencies are part of the same logic of structured capture.
Far from being limited to visible brutality, dispossession has often been presented in more discreet forms of administration, law, debt, trade and cooperation. Modern looting speaks the language of economic rationality.
The podcast therefore questions a fundamental question: how can Africa emerge from a world order where wealth too often leaves its territories in legal, contractual and institutionally protected forms?
