How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Written by:
Walter Rodney
Narrated by:
Mirron Willis

Unabridged Audiobook

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32
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7
Release Date
October 2018
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13 hours 23 minutes
Summary
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 thirty-eight-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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Juicyjsam

This book is brilliant!!!!

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Anonymous

Incredibly thorough and deep look into the past history of the colonization and underdevelopment of South Africa. An absolute must read if you are looking into any variation of the topic.

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