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In pre-colonial Africa, local people rarely worked for wages because:

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1they had an abundance of land and livestock to sustain their livelihoods.✓
2wage work was considered illegal by local chiefs.
3the population was too small to form a structured society.
4wages were legally prohibited.

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they had an abundance of land and livestock to sustain their livelihoods.

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