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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rodney, Walter. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)648585626 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Rodney; A M Babu; Vincent Harding |
| ISBN: | 0882580965 9780882580968 |
| OCLC Number: | 7552523 |
| Notes: | [Introduction by Vincent Harding] |
| Description: | xxiv, 312 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Chapter One. Some Questions on Development. 1.1 What is Development -- 1.2 What is Underdevelopment? --- Chapter Two. How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans up to the 15th Century -- 2.1 General Over-View -- 2.2 Concrete Examples --- Chapter Three. Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development - the Pre-Colonial Period -- 3.1 How Europe Became the Dominant Section of a World-Wide Trade System -- 3.2 Africa's contribution to the economy and beliefs of early capitalist Europe --- Chapter Four. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment - to 1885 -- 4.1 The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment -- 4.2 Technological Stagnation and Distortion of the African Economy in the Pre-Colonial Epoch -- 4.3 Continuing Politico-Military Developments in Africa - 1500 to 1885 -- Chapter Five. Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe - the Colonial Period -- 5.1 Expatriation of African Surplus Under Colonialism -- 5.2 The Strengthening of Technological and Military Aspects of Capitalism -- Chapter Six. Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa -- 6.1 The Supposed Benefits of Colonialism to Africa -- 6.2 Negative Character of the Social, Political and Economic Consequences -- 6.3 Education for Underdevelopment -- 6.4 Development by Contradiction. |
| Responsibility: | by Walter Rodney with a postscript by A.M. Babu. |
Abstract:
"This book derives from a concern with the contemporary African situation. It delves into the past only because otherwise it would be impossible to understand how the present came into being and what the trends are for the near future. In the search for an understanding of what is now called underdevelopment in Africa, the limits of enquiry have had to be fixed as far apart as the fifteenth century, on the one hand and the end of the colonial period, on the other hand."--
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After a world lit only by fire this is a great segue into what happened to the medieval mind during the reconnaissance years and one continents horrific adventure...Once the euro forces wrestled control of the Mediterranean and the North African waterways from the Arabs and the African moors they used...
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After a world lit only by fire this is a great segue into what happened to the medieval mind during the reconnaissance years and one continents horrific adventure...Once the euro forces wrestled control of the Mediterranean and the North African waterways from the Arabs and the African moors they used the technology to sail to other continents, in this case Africa in the late 1400's to early 1500's. Secondly control of trading routes were disrupted and eventually taken out of the Africans control. Third once other land was discovered in the western hemisphere free labor was needed to work it…with control of trading routes, the outsiders were able to impose the type of merchandise to be traded...this massive trade helped the invaders move from a economically and socially backward geo-political system to a full fledged capitalist system , while causing an African brain drain (ages 14 to 30) of massive proportions and depopulation of the highest order. One of conscious mind could only look in horror as boatloads of emaciated children pulled up to ports. These were the poster children for the age of unreason and of course this was with the help of the bamboozled chiefs and the mulatto class. Although there were a few empires that launched kicka@#s offensives, the war was already lost. The Africans failed to see the world picture that the enemy saw. Once trading in slavery commenced on a massive scale , merchants got paid on a billion dollar scale...taking profits and moving those profits to other investments... such as technology, colonial corporations etc…, and on to the next phase of raw oppression . Under colonialism the medieval men choked off every single surplus of the peasant farmers and raw materials the workers had and mined sending billons home. The combination of slavery and colonialism caused massive famines, disease outbreaks, wars, and indigenous systems were arrested . In other words the model that the medieval population now capitalists brought and originated from, took a mere 500 years to transport elsewhere.Lets be real clear regarding the type of development that was allegedly brought...it was economic. For when the medieval invaders reached their targeted geo area they had already found social development too advance for them to fathom...for unlike the military invading force, this areas people were very healthy and able to feed themselves, had an educational system in place, little to no crime, and political administrations.One could only hope the land that launch intellect and spirituality can muster up forces to alleviate its current situation based on its past. This is an excellent read.
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