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Preface; Contents; Introduction; I. Some Questions on Development; II. How Africa Developed before the Coming of the Europeans -- Up to the Fifteenth Century; III. Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development -- The Pre-Colonial Period; IV. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment -- To 1885; V. Africa's Contributoin to the Capitalist Development of Europe -- The Colonial Period; VI. Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa; Postscript by A.M. Babu; Index.;Few books have been as influential in understanding African impoverishment as this groundbreaking analysis. Rodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. They have been joined in this exploitation by agents or unwitting accomplices both in the North and in Africa. With oppression and liberation his main concern, he 'delves into the past', as he says in his preface, 'only because otherwise it would be impossible to understand how the present came into being ... In the search for an understanding of what is now called "underdevelopment" in Africa, the limits of inquiry have had to be fixed as far apart as the fifteenth ce

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Author

Recorded Books, Inc.;Rodney, Walter

Publisher

Black Classic Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781574780529

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Political Science

Rating

4.23 / 5 (1,602 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14