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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
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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 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
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Essential Reading (Listening) by ALL Human Beings

I cannot praise this book and the narrator, Mr Mirron Willis, enough. An audio book which will have to be re-listened several times throughout my life due to the high volume of invaluable information which helps us all to understand ourselves, our heritage and the world.

Please do give the audiobook or the printed book as a gift to your family and friends. Knowledge is indeed freedom and the very least we can do is to help people not to die in ignorance of their circumstances.

Mr Willis brought to life written words with so much honesty and soulful eloquence in his speech. The perfectly tuned emphasis which helped me understand the importance of the information.

Certainly a lifelong favourite book and favourite narrator.

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Phenomenal!

True, raw, insightful, anger-provoking, challenging, revolutionary, memorable and extremely relevant - almost 50 years after it was written. This book and its associated works cost Walter Rodney his life - after, like all Afrikan leaders, he was murdered to prevent Afrikans from rising and challenging our oppression and subjugation. This book should be on every curriculum at all levels of education, if we truly are committed to making Black Lives Matter!!

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Impactful

For those who want to build or even dream of a brighter future for Africa this is a must read, must study and must share.

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Inspired by Marx

Good book about Africa and its suffering but it has the spirit of Marx writing and it’s clearly written during the Cold War and the writer seeing the future being communists

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Great understanding

This book has given me a greater understanding of what and how the Europeans have put themselves in the position they are today and what we need to do to stop them taking advantage.

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Africa must rise

very informative in understanding underdevelopment in Africa and how we need to look to the past to present to help us I'm the future

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Everyone needs to read this book!

We are all aware that Africa was underdeveloped by Europe in general terms. Walter Rodney makes it impossible to ignore or identify the specifics of that underdevelopment and the effects that continue to exists today. He uses empirical research data and statistics to prove the centuries of oppression and exploitation. Anyone who denies their European descended privilege should be able to recognise it after reading this book. Great men have always lived and Walter Rodney has been immortalised with this work that is as relevant today, if not more so, than it was when he wrote it ❤️ May he continue to rest peacefully.

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Brilliant book but narration is very off-putting

I was really disappointed by the narration which made listening difficult to maintain. The narration sounds very robotic which is off-putting!

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A must read for all who value freedom!

This book succinctly explains the actions that have led to the current geopolitical climate. Much of the challenges faced then seem to be in affect now. A great read for those seeking insight into what true liberation will look like based on where Africa has come from.

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must read

I found it quite dense and slow at times but this book will definitely be a re-read in the future, it was so concise and detailed.

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