In the postwar period, European countries actively recruited immigrants from Africa because

A) their labor force had been decimated by the war.
B) they wanted to increase their cultural diversity.
C) they held sympathy for the struggling survivors of the newly independent African colonies.
D) their economies needed additional consumers.
E) Europeans had overcome their prewar xenophobia.


Answer: A

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