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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Written by: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
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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.

©1972 Walter Rodney; copyright 2018 by Patricia Rodney; Postscript copyright 1971, 2018 by A. M. Babu; Foreword copyright 2018 by Angela Y. Davis; Introduction copyright 1981, 2018 by Vincent Harding, William Strickland, and Robert Hill (P)2018 Tantor Africa Economics Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences Capitalism Morocco Socialism Business Imperialism Middle Ages Latin America Colonial Period Middle East Social justice Caribbean Economic Inequality
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Thank you for telling this important history and providing clarity to the issues that plague the African community. it is important to deal with the issues head on in order to make change.

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This book details the main reason why Africa and Africans are dispossessed. It is an eye opener, that what we see is not always all there is to it. This book is a must read for everyone who has an interest in the continent of Africa.

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