How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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Verso Books, 27 nov 2018 - 416 páginas
This hugely influential work of political theory and political history, now powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, “remains as relevant as when it was first published—a call to arms in the class struggle for racial equity” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
 
A powerful analysis of European colonialism in Africa that stands alongside pan-Africanist classics like C.L.R. James’ Black Jacobins, Eric Williams’ Capitalism & Slavery, and W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction.

In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated.

In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
 

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How Africa Developed before the Coming of
35
Africas Contribution to European Capitalist
85
Africas Contribution to the Economy and Beliefs
95
Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment
106
Technical Stagnation and Distortion of the African
117
The Coming of Imperialism and Colonialism
160
Africas Contributions to the Capitalist Development
175
The Strengthening of the Technological and Military
207
Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
245
Economic Consequences
270
Postscript by A M Babu
347
Guide to Further Reading
355
Index
367
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Walter Rodney was an internationally renowned historian of colonialism and a leader of Black Power and Pan-African movements across the diaspora, most notably the Guyanese Working People's Alliance. His life and work brought together struggles for independence on the African continent with the strivings of the black working classes of North America and the Caribbean basin. On June the 13th, 1980, Rodney was assassinated, most likely by the then-president of Guyana. He was 38 years old.

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