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Title: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Vincent Harding ISBN: 0-88258-096-5 Publisher: Howard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.07 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ignore Covert Racist Reviews of the Excellent Book
Comment: By the way, I am a white Irish-American reader and a voter who casts my ballots as neither conservative nor liberal but as an independent. To think that a reasoned critique of the problems of racist economic hierarchies would be disallowed by white so called patriotic reviewers below is an extreme form of covert racism. The knee-jerk dismissals of Dr. Rodney's excellent exegesis by the reviewers below is precisely the kind of conceptual horror that Dr. Rodney's book so cogently examines--and with much logical presentation of arguments and evidence. Far from "blaming whitey" as the simpleton reviewer noted below (and I do mean below), Dr. Rodney shows the systemic imperialism of profit-making European interventions on the continent of Africa. As his book was written prior to the African dictatorships that the reviewer cites below, Dr. Rodney can surely not be blamed for those dictatorships. (Logic: Hello! ...and you blame Dr. Rodney for supposed poor argumentation!) But the real problem is these reviewers insist on ignoring colonialism's European interventions and responsibilities. They are so quick to bring up everything else and not to discuss at length the glaring European responsibility that the transatlantic slave trade and the "owning" of African nations before their independence had on the socioeconomic underdevelopment of the African continent as Dr. Rodney brilliantly makes clear. Some people will NEVER take stock of their own racism--be it overt or covert. In a nation founded by white racist slave-holders, these reviewers need to look carefully at HISTORY.
Rating: 1
Summary: Let's clear the air, shall we?
Comment: First, Rodney was a revolutionary, and like many revolutionaries, he didn't know how to handle his own bombs.
Second, the 'underdevelopment' thesis gets weaker and weaker each passing year. It's been nearly 60 years since decolonialization began and 45 years since it's ended. How long is whitey going to be blamed for the fact that Zimbabwe is run by a kleptocrat, unmarried pregnant Nigerian women are sentenced to be stoned to death, three million Africans are in a war with each other, one tribe killed 500,000 of another tribe with sticks and machetes, female 'circumcision' is still widely practiced and 38% of Botswanans have AIDS?
Third, if national borders are arbitrary and a hangover from colonialism, how come the affected countries haven't changed them?
Fourth, what besides geography connects sub-Saharan Africa from Berber/northern Africa? Shouldn't the book be 'How Europe Underdeveloped Sub-Saharan Africa'?
Fifth, if whitey is so bad, why does Rodney ape the language of that whitey known as Marx? You know, looking over the mercifully brief history of the Marxist empire known as the USSR, it looks awfully colonial to me, from Kazakhstan to Georgia to Finland to the Baltic states to Afghanistan. Trying to be anticolonial and Marxist at the same time is like trying to be hetero and a Catholic priest at the same time.
Finally, any economist that can write with a straight face that we should pattern our economies on East Germany and Albania wins the record for silly idiocy. Not even Krugman would go that far, and that's saying something.
Rating: 1
Summary: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Comment: This book is full of nonsense and distorts historic truth. I was told that the writer's relatives lives in Atlanta. If this is the case, a full investigation/background check needs to be administered. I wouldn't be surprised if the writer's relatives are connectioned with anti-American groups.
This book is ridiculous.
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Title: Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Eustace Williams, Colin A. Palmer ISBN: 0807844888 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James ISBN: 0679724672 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington ISBN: 0802150837 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop, Mercer Cook ISBN: 1556520727 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: From Columbus to Castro : The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 by Eric Williams ISBN: 0394715020 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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