Under the Marshall Plan , by which United States capitalism aided Western European capitalism after the last war , it was announced that American experts were exploring Africa from end to end for agricultural and mineral wealth ...
Hirji makes a case that Rodney's seminal work retains its value for understanding where Africa has come from, where it is going, and charting the path towards genuine development for its people.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
This book presents a moving and insightful portrait of Rodney through by the words of academics, writers, artists, and political activists who knew him intimately or felt his influence.
Newton wrote on 29 October, “But believe shall be forced to go from Captain Ellis whereever we meet, his large gold-coast cargoe enabling him to bear away all the trade here from a vessel that has only a common assortment'.
How Africa Underdevelops Africa presents an exegesis of how corruption and its numerous effects are playing out in Africa.
He draws stark parallels with Western European imperialism as well as US imperial expansion across the continent (Manifest Destiny), expressing the problem succinctly in a particularly memorable line: “The British sent warships—the ...
A dialogue held in Amherst, Massachusetts, where Rodney discussed his own political and intellectual development, and exchanged views on the role of the Black intellectual
This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches.
Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom.
In drawing together pages where he elaborates on the nexus of race and class, offers his reflections on radical pedagogy, outlines programs for newly independent nation-states, considers the challenges of anti-colonial historiography, and ...