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Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 2
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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 the first section, "A General Overview", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century. This is roughly 15 pages.
Next week, we will be reading the second section, "Some Concrete Examples", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century.
Chris Knight, the anthropologist, also argues that humanity developed art skills well before cave paintings by painting on themselves on the African continent, and he has some good evidence of this. I think we're still barely scratching the surface of hidden histories with our broadening acceptable answers (accepting that white people didn't lead in literally everything in history). I wish I could see the studies of these places that will be available in 200 years!