How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a classic work that explains how Africa’s poverty and economic challenges are not accidental but largely the result of European exploitation during slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. Walter Rodney shows how Europe developed economically by extracting Africa’s human and natural resources, while deliberately weakening African political systems, industries, and social structures. The book challenges the idea that Africa was “backward” on its own and instead argues that underdevelopment was imposed through unequal global relationships that continue to affect Africa today.