How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Free Audiobook Download by Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney's 1975 book is a tour de force, a searing indictment of colonialism. He argues that by stripping Africa of its resources and labor, Europe created the conditions for modernizing Africa. Developing countries would only have been able to industrialize themselves with substantial help from the West, which was indeed forthcoming after WWII. Yet this help has always been conditional and in some cases like France's 'Melting Pot' policy, the most wealthy Africans were expected to assimilate into European society culturally as well as physically.

Europe, the world's largest economy, and the European Union, one of the most powerful political entities in the world. How is it that Europe has been more successful than Africa in both economic and social contexts?

Walter Rodney was a West Indian writer, historian, and sociologist who was born in Grenada but educated in England. He is best known for his 1970 book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa which became the starting point for a new field of study for scholars; dependency theory. In this book, Rodney argued that not only were African economies stunted because of European colonialism, but European culture has made African societies less resistant to change due to its stifling effects on traditional African society and its obscurantist values.

In this audiobook, Walter Rodney gives a thorough analysis of the inequality and exploitation that exists between Europe and Africa. He also explains the events that led to the colonization of Africa by Europeans.

Walter Rodney, a former professor of history and political science at the University of Guyana, discusses how Europe exploited Africa during the 16th-19th centuries. The colonization of Africa by European countries led to the establishment of slavery, which perpetuated poverty and hunger. This audiobook is based on Rodney's acclaimed book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa."

The author, Walter Rodney, does a great job in explaining how Africa was underdeveloped by Europe. He starts off by pointing out how Africa was exploited through the slave trade and how its economy was gradually weakened since the European colonists arrived.