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There was/is a risk premium built in to the price paid for African natural resources, on account of the fact they can't form a functioning government or provide stability for more than 2 years at a time.
Had Africa demanded more for its resources, markets would have looked elsewhere, and those resources would have remained in the ground.
All this is to say, no one was exploited.
Africans were compensated fairly for their resources by the market.