During the heyday of Atlantic slavery, a range of European countries established small forts on the East and West African coasts. ... Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Europe was still rapidly developing and therefore needed the raw materials that Africa had to offer. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. ... Amid imperialism, urbanization happened decently quickly in numerous African provinces. ...

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