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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
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Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Some Questions on Development
What Is Development?
What Is Underdevelopment?
2. How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans—Up to the Fifteenth Century
A General Overview
Some Concrete Examples
Conclusion
3. Africa’s Contribution to European Capitalist Development—The Pre-Colonial Period
How Europe Became the Dominant Section of a World-Wide Trade System
Africa’s Contribution to the Economy and Beliefs of Early Capitalist Europe
4. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment —To 1885
The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment
Technical Stagnation and Distortion of the African Economy in the Pre-Colonial Epoch
Continuing Politico-Military Developments in Africa —1500 to 1885
The Coming of Imperialism and Colonialism
5. Africa’s Contributions to the Capitalist Development of Europe—The Colonial Period
Expatriation of African Surplus under Colonialism
The Strengthening of the Technological and Military Aspects of Capitalism
6. Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
The Supposed Benefits of Colonialism to Africa
Negative Character of the Social, Political, and Economic Consequences
Education for Underdevelopment
Development by Contradiction
Postscript
Guide to Further Reading
Index
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
