In what ways and to what extent did European colonialists exploit Africa?

by DeleteriousEuphuism
cchiu23

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/20ct2r/what_were_the_major_long_term_effects_of/

This gives a short general overview of what happened in africa but given the size of africa and the different european powers, its hard to generalize everything that happened

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3iaa08/ama_selling_the_congo_and_belgian_imperialism/

This is an AMA that was done here 2 years back on the congo experience with colonialism