Background

North Africans interacted with Arabs, Greeks, and Romans. East Africans interacted with Arabs, Chinese, and Indians. Globalization is present between Africans and the merchants, missionaries, and scholars. 

Globalization through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade by Portuguese, French, Spanish, British and Dutch. The slaves were used for agricultural labor and formed the backbone of most societies. African's participated in economic globalization.

From 1900 to 1960s outside exports controlled Africa's economy. The set up was focused towards capitalist accumulation not  African development. The money generated was used towards colonial power rather than broad based economic development.

African territories were decolonized between the 1960s and the 1980s. Unfortunately, they did not receive full sovereignty to develop their own economies. Exports between other countries continued but terms of trade had changed. There was a lot of chaos, conflict, and even war. 

The inability to control their own economy resulted in the formation of SAPs. These structural adjustment programs allowed African countries to borrow money from the World Bank. The program created more problems because of the power that other countries continue to hold over Africa. 

Recently there has been a lot more technological interconnectedness. There has been recovery of several economies. As well as gradual increase in exports to the global market. The history of Africa still plays a large impact on the current situation. As you will learn through the global use of coltan.