How Africa Underdevelops Africa

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731201

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 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.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731188

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 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.

Author : Stanley Igwe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1475954034

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How Africa Underdevelops Africa by Stanley Igwe Pdf

Half a century after independence poverty and disease continues to ravage more than 70% of the inhabitants of the most resource rich continent of the world. State corruption persists as the only industry with steady growth while those that should offer employment to the majority inhabitants of the continent are on the decline. How Africa Underdevelops Africa presents an exegesis of how corruption and its numerous effects are playing out in Africa. With the myth of Asias rise here demystified, Africa has no longer just the Western world to learn from, it could and should necessarily borrow from the social capital values of the East to ensure even distribution of the wealth which at the present rests with an avaricious few who with their cronies tag themselves leaders of Africa.

Author : Joshua Agbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3846545929

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How Africans Underdeveloped Africa: by Joshua Agbo Pdf

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966251138

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

Author : Karim F Hirji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0995222398

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Walter Rodney by Karim F Hirji Pdf

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. It is a succinct, coherent defence of an intellectual giant who lived and died for humanity, an essential read for anyone interested in Africa.

Author : Joshua Agbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9788425119

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How Africans Underdeveloped Africa by Joshua Agbo Pdf

Author : Lee Wengraf
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608468768

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Extracting Profit by Lee Wengraf Pdf

Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.

Author : Greg Mills
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780143529033

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Why Africa is Poor by Greg Mills Pdf

Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa is poor not because the world has denied the continent the market and financial means to compete: far from it. It has not been because of aid per se. Nor is African poverty solely a consequence of poor infrastructure or trade access, or because the necessary development and technical expertise is unavailable internationally. Why then has the continent lagged behind other developing areas when its people work hard and the continent is blessed with abundant natural resources? Stomping across the continent and the developing world in search of the answer, Greg Mills controversially shows that the main reason why Africa's people are poor is because their leaders have made this choice.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786635310

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The Russian Revolution by Walter Rodney Pdf

Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney Foundation Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley Afterword by Vijay Prashad In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He became a leading force of dissent throughout the Caribbean and a lightning rod of controversy. The 1968 Rodney Riots erupted in Jamaica when he was prevented from returning to his teaching post at the University of the West Indies. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in Guyana, reportedly at the behest of the government. In the mid-'70s, Rodney taught a course on the Russian Revolution at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A Pan-Africanist and Marxist, Rodney sought to make sense of the reverberations of the October Revolution in a decolonising world marked by Third World revolutionary movements. He intended to publish a book based on his research and teaching. Now historians Jesse Benjamin, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Vijay Prashad have edited Rodney's polished chapters and unfinished lecture notes, presenting the book that Rodney had hoped to publish in his lifetime. 1917 is a signal event in radical publishing, and will inaugurate Verso's standard edition of Walter Rodney's works.

Author : Cheikh Anta Diop,Harold Salemson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613747452

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Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop,Harold Salemson Pdf

This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.

Author : Kwamina Panford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137540720

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Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment by Kwamina Panford Pdf

This book explores how African countries can convert their natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the continent’s newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it examines the "resource curse" faced by other producers - such as Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea - and demonstrates how mismanagement in those countries can provide valuable lessons for new oil producers in Africa and elsewhere. Relying on a broad range of fieldwork and policymaking experience, Panford suggests practical measures for resource-rich developing countries to transform natural resources into valuable assets that can help create jobs, boost human resources, and improve living and working conditions in Ghana in particular. He suggests fiscal, legal, and environmental antidotes to resource mismanagement, which he identifies as the major obstacle to socioeconomic development in countries that have historically relied on natural resources.

Author : Kinfe Abraham
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017392718

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The Missing Millions by Kinfe Abraham Pdf

One of the most important political historians of Africa writes eloquently and in great detail on the reasons for the current underdevelopment of Africa Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Catherine Gegout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190845162

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Why Europe Intervenes in Africa by Catherine Gegout Pdf

Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response of European actors is generally inaction. This can be explained in several ways: the absence of strategic and economic interests, the unwillingness of European leaders to become involved in conflicts in former colonies of other European states, and sometimes the Eurocentric assumption that conflict in Africa is a normal event which does not require intervention. When European actors do decide to intervene, it is primarily for motives of security and prestige, and not primarily for economic or humanitarian reasons. The weight of past relations with Africa can also be a driver for European military intervention, but the impact of that past is changing. This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches. It refutes the assumptions of liberals and constructivists who posit that states and organisations intervene primarily in order to respect the principle of the 'responsibility to protect'.

Author : L. D. Keita
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782869783263

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Philosophy and African Development by L. D. Keita Pdf

Philosophy and African Development: Theory and Practice appraises development in a holistic manner. It goes beyond the usual measurement in terms of economic achievement and widens the scope to include the impact that history of ideas, political theory, sociology, social and political philosophy, and political economy have had on development in Africa. It is a departure from the traditional treatment of development by economists who point towards the so-called time-tested assertions and recommendations for 'sustainable development', but which are yet bring about significant change in the economies of the so-called 'developing' societies. It is on account of the failures of the economic development theory, with its tepid prescriptions for 'sustainable development' and 'poverty reduction' that theories of development have now been expanded from mere economic analysis to include considerations of history, sociology, political economy and anthropology, as could be discovered in this book. Most of the contributions in this book have been prepared by philosophers across Africa and the United States who implicitly practise their discipline as one whose most effective modern function would be to appraise the human experience in all its dimensions from the standpoints of modern social and natural sciences, all disciplinary offspring of philosophy itself. With chapters ranging from issues of modernity and religious interpretations, the human right to development, the idea of 'African time', the primacy of mental decolonisation, and the type of education we are offering in Africa today and as a tool for development, to development planning, science, technology and globalisation, as well as issues of post coloniality among others, the tenor of the contributions is not only proportional, but also engaged in the meta-analysis of the theories on which the concept of development is founded and practised. This book is strongly recommended as a useful text in the hands of scholars, researchers and students of development studies. It approaches the important issue of African development from the broad perspective of the social sciences in general, and buttresses this with the keen analytical approach of its contributors.