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There's scant evidence that the concept of private property (and by extension, individual rights) ever really took root in subsaharan Africa. Socialism would seem to be a more natural state.
When everyone in your group knows/is related to and dependent upon each other, it kind of is. However, those types of groups tend to trade on a very capitalistic basis with other groups. And when all that you own is made out of stone, bone and wood and is basically disposable and easily replaceable, well, property isn't a thing to get all het up about. Territory might be, but not property.
Simple trade isn't really capitalism. Capitalism is about efficient allocation of resources. Mansa Musa used his immense wealth to do a bling tour and inadvertently crashed markets, without any plan to capitalize or even the cognition of what he had done. Definitely not a capitalist.
Well, I meant that the little socialist group will want to get the best price (in money, goods or services) they can demand from the other socialist group, rather than worrying about equally spreading their own resources to the other group in the name of "equality" or "fairness".