Bartering in Africa during the pre-colonial period --- It is interesting to see how there are communities in Africa that still maintain a barter system as a form of exchange. Before the colonial period, various areas in Africa, instead of using goods to barter, they used their labor power as a form of payment. Unfortunately, this type of system was later exploited by European entrepreneurs to acquire workforce that was eventually enslaved.

Source author: Ricardo Daniel Delgado Muñoz rdelgado@sre.gob.mx