"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" Book Discussion

Join us at Burning Books on Wednesday, June 11th as we discuss the second book in our Foundations Book Series: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. This book series allows us to explore fundamental and oft-referenced books within the progressive movement.

All are welcome, even if you didn't RSVP or finish the book!!!
(Bookclub books are available for purchase at Burning Books with a 15% discount for our members)

_How Europe Underdeveloped Africa:
"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."

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