How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

De: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword

Narrado por: Mirron Willis

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

An eye opener

This book gives a thorough examination of how and why the continent of Africa is poor and underdeveloped inspite of its rich resources. I learned so many facts that make sense of its current condition and real fight for economic development and prosperity.

A must read

Gives a clear account on the subject matter. Critical in understanding the history of how Africa is today

Holy Book

This is the African Holy Book. A must read for anyone who wants to break the chain of oppression. Rest In Peace Orisha Walter Rodney.

So educational!! Free Africa from this!

So many memorable moments. Absolutely have to listen to this one!! History that needs to be told!

Eye opening

A must read for everyone and anyone that wants to understand the continent of Africa.