How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword

Narrated by: 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

Good read

I hope one day African will learn from history to decide their future . Nobody is coming to help you. Not even Jesus

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.

Joe

A book that should be read, repeatedly, by everybody. A brilliant and thorough analysis of the effects of imperialism on Africa.

Facts

A great fact base book.. a historic research into the robbery of great Africa’s wealth

So comprehensive. A must listen for everyone!

Loved this. Well researched and indepth history. I have some many notes on parts of history I was never taught in school. I have so much more to research, but this was a book I should have read/listened to a long time ago. I hope you have the courage to listen and take in this history and it's effect on the present day.