I'm inclined to say that .... --- ... the colonizers sought raw materials from their colonies (exploitation) but sought markets from their fellow other colonizers (exploration), hence economic diplomacy was not that significant to colonized countries in those days.

But, time and tide changed their courses and the once-colonized countries now see the value of economic diplomacy and themselves in the discipline these days.

Source author: David Ateti Teaabo david.teaabo@gmail.com