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For example, the British transformed Africa from a cotton textile manufacturing country to a raw cotton exporter.

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The above statement is false.
British transformed India, not Africa, from a cotton manufacturing country to a raw cotton exporter. Cotton textiles made in Britain were free to be imported into India by the British colonial government in India. Machines were used to make British textiles. Meanwhile, the local cotton textile producers, who were primarily independent, small-scale artisans, could not compete with British fabrics produced at a low cost by machines. At the same time, the British government did nothing to support regional producers of cotton textiles. As a result, India's cotton textile industry was destroyed, and it started exporting raw cotton.
Hence the correct statement would be; the British transformed India from a cotton textile manufacturing country to a raw cotton exporter.

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