How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Angela Yvonne Davis (1944) nació en Birmingham, Alabama. Después de graduarse x{0026}lt;i magna cum laudex{0026}lt;/i en la Universidad Brandeis, cursó estudios de Filosofía en la Universidad Goethe de Frankfurt y se doctoró en la Universidad de California en San Diego. Tras quedar absuelta en 1972 de los cargos que pesaban contra ella y que la habían conducido a prisión, ha consagrado su vida a una incansable labor como escritora, ensayista, conferenciante y defensora de los derechos humanos, méritos que le han valido de manera unánime el reconocimiento internacional. Fue candidata a la vicepresidencia de Estados Unidos por el Partido Comunista en las elecciones de 1980 y 1984. Entre sus obras más célebres se encuentran x{0026}lt;i Mujeres, raza y clase,x{0026}lt;/i x{0026}lt;i La libertad es una batalla constantex{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Democracia de la abolición.x{0026}lt;/i