How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By Walter Rodney

Book Overview

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788731182
• ISBN13: 9781788731188
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

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Few Better Books on Africa's Colonial Experience

Colonialism f@#*ed up Africa, big time, and this legacy keeps Africa f@#*ed up to this day. This is Rodney's bottom line in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, which is essential reading providing historical perspective for understanding the power relationships imbedded in the current international economic architecture. With meticulous precision, Rodney examines economic development in pre-colonial African society, and its demise under European colonists' rape of the continent. Parts of the book are rather dry, but it is rich in detail and analysis.

A masterpiece

An exceptionally well-written account of facts and historic events that contibutes validity to Walter Rodney's case. Clearly an enormous amount of research was done for this analysis to be as clear cut and decisive as it illustrated. A fantastic piece of armor for any student or intellectual of African/World History. We were so captivated by this book that we have made it a point to relay its information to all that we know and have even given it as a gift to many of our friends and family menbers world wide.