How Europe Underdeveloped AfricaHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, [Walter] 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."--