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In the context of resource management, the use of exotics in Zimbabwe as a resource of prestige and wealth is well known. For many years and in different contexts, exotics like ivory, copper, jewellery, and clothing were used as a resource of status and wealth. When the question is asked what constitutes wealth, the answer is not always clear. In Western and Northern societies, wealth is generally understood as money, including monetary assets, while in African and Southern societies that wealth is understood as having power. While in Western and Northern societies wealth is seen as a resource from the outside that is accumulated as a result of hard work, in southern societies wealth is considered to be a social status that is acquired through the accumulation of power.
For example, in the study of the economies of the Atlantic slave trade, the power of the Europeans was seen as their ability to capture Africans into the production chains of the plantation. This included not only the capacity to capture individuals, but also the capacity to capture resources. For example, during the slave trade, West Africans were captured not only as individuals but also as knowledge, wisdom, and land. The Europeans did not need to capture knowledge and wisdom from within Africa, because these were given to them, but the capture of knowledge became even more important during the slave trade than the capture of people. The capture of knowledge of land such as the ability to cultivate indigenously and to understand the location and climate of different parts of Africa had a decisive role. The Europeans were able to capture the land, for example, through the capture of animal and vegetable resources from local people, or through the acquisition of local people. These in turn became sources of captured knowledge and wisdom, which were then used to develop the plantation into a profitable enterprise. The capture of land, knowledge and wisdom was also a fundamental part of the capture of labour and commodities.
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