Despite advances in many spheres, however, development in Africa was uneven.Ĭhapter 3 addresses the exploitative relationship between Europe and Africa before colonialism. The rise in labor specialization and technological advances drove development in a range of sectors, including manufacturing and trade. Inequality emerged during this transitional period, as did new social formations. Most African societies between the 5th century and 1500 moved from communalism toward something resembling European feudalism. Family also dominated land, labor, and distribution systems, which were based on kinship ties. African societies were initially communal and family centric, with social relations and religion revolving around kinship and ancestors. Governments in developed countries function more efficiently than those in underdeveloped countries, which tend to have bloated administrations that stifle national wealth.Ĭhapter 2 describes development in Africa before the era of European imperialism. They also provide social services that promote well-being and happiness, and have an abundance of skilled labor, whereas underdeveloped nations lack qualified personnel like engineers, teachers, and doctors. Developed nations are industrialized and have higher incomes per capita than underdeveloped countries. Chapter 1 defines development and underdevelopment, stressing the comparative nature of these terms.
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.How Europe Underdeveloped Africa comprises six interrelated chapters. 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. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney would be assassinated.
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 each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. 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.
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis.
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