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Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 1
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This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.
The book we are currently reading through is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.
This week, we will be reading Chapter 1: Some Questions On Development.
Next week, we will be reading the first section, "A General Overview", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century.
I picked it up and couldn't take my eyes off the page. Maybe others here are better acquainted with this development framework, but Rodney put it so eloquently, I'm still awed.
The book is obviously focused on Africa but IMHO the framework from chapter 1 applies (in different degrees) to anywhere in the imperial periphery.
He is both concise and then detailed in a way that is very legible, agreed.