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We'll return to the racial wealth gap in a few days. But this is for all the whites here making ignorant comments about Africa. You racists know nothing about Walter Rodney, Frantz Fenon, John Henrik Clarke, or Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, just to name a few. And this choice to be ignorant leaves you misinformed. This thread is called reality and you are about to get a dose of it from the great Walter Rodney.
Walter Rodney And How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The 15 Ways Europe Underdeveloped Africa
An emphasis on population loss as such is highly relevant to the question of socio-economic development…The massive loss to the African labour force was made more critical because it was composed of able-bodied young men and young women. Slave buyers preferred their victims between the ages of 15 and 35, and preferably in the early twenties; the sex ratio being about two men to one woman. Europeans often accepted younger African children, but rarely any older person.
Slavery carried away millions of the healthiest, youngest, strongest, and most productive Africans. Its hard to determine an exact number, but if we take the following statistics into account, we can start to see the impact that slavery had on Africa’s population.
The question can then be raised “How can any group develop its nation with more than half the population gone and the other half being sick, elderly, or weakened?”
Technological Arrest
When Europeans invaded the African continent, they put an end to the development of new technology. Instead, colonies were forced to use technologies and machinery that were produced in Europe. This led to technological arrest.
Africans neither had the means of production to build such technologies on their own, nor were they allowed to. With all available technology coming from the outside world, Africa’s ability to create its own technology was never realized.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes:
…To be held back at one stage [of technological advancement] means that it is impossible to go on to a further stage. When a person was forced to leave school after only two years of primary school education…he is academically and intellectually less developed than someone who had the opportunity to be schooled right through to university level. What Africa experienced in the early centuries of trade was precisely a loss of development opportunity, and this is of the greatest importance.
Dr. Rodney goes on to use the textile industry as an example. Whereas most nations advanced from hand made textiles to industrial mass production from the 1400s into the 1600s, Africa’s andvancement was aborted by the Europeans.
Partly by establishing a stranglehold on the distribution of cloth around the shores of Africa, and partly by swamping African products by importing cloth in bulk, European traders eventually succeeded in putting an end to the expansion of African cloth manufacture.
Over time, Africans forgot how to clothing by hand, and relied almost completely on European textiles.
Trade Imbalance
One of the common means by which one nation exploits another and one that is relevant to Africa’s external relations is exploitation through trade. When the terms of trade are set by one country in a manner entirely advantageous to itself, then the trade is usually detrimental to the trading partner. –
As part of the trade imbalance that Europe forced on its colonies, African nations were forced to pay part of the cost of producing the items it traded to reduce prices for the buyer.
Dr. Walter Rodney describes how these trade imbalances led to the accumulation of white wealth at the expense of Black productivity.
These imbalances continue to this very day, with the European Union drafted Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) which are aimed at creating a free trade area between EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.
Don't be scurred. Read the rest.
Walter Rodney And How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney And How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The 15 Ways Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- The 15 Ways Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Population Decline
- Technological Arrest
- Trade Imbalance
- Market Disruption
- The Expansion of Capitalism
- Expatriation of Surplus
- Wage Depression
- Price Control and Monopolization
- Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
- Division of Labor
- Growth Without Development
- Monoculture
- Undernourishment
- Miseducation
- White Values
An emphasis on population loss as such is highly relevant to the question of socio-economic development…The massive loss to the African labour force was made more critical because it was composed of able-bodied young men and young women. Slave buyers preferred their victims between the ages of 15 and 35, and preferably in the early twenties; the sex ratio being about two men to one woman. Europeans often accepted younger African children, but rarely any older person.
Slavery carried away millions of the healthiest, youngest, strongest, and most productive Africans. Its hard to determine an exact number, but if we take the following statistics into account, we can start to see the impact that slavery had on Africa’s population.
- At best estimate, the population of the entire African continent was 100 million when the Maafa began
- About 20 million slaves survived the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to arrive in the Americas.
- About half of that population – 10 million did not survive the journey
- About 10 million were either killed or worked to death on the African continent itself
The question can then be raised “How can any group develop its nation with more than half the population gone and the other half being sick, elderly, or weakened?”
Technological Arrest
When Europeans invaded the African continent, they put an end to the development of new technology. Instead, colonies were forced to use technologies and machinery that were produced in Europe. This led to technological arrest.
Africans neither had the means of production to build such technologies on their own, nor were they allowed to. With all available technology coming from the outside world, Africa’s ability to create its own technology was never realized.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes:
…To be held back at one stage [of technological advancement] means that it is impossible to go on to a further stage. When a person was forced to leave school after only two years of primary school education…he is academically and intellectually less developed than someone who had the opportunity to be schooled right through to university level. What Africa experienced in the early centuries of trade was precisely a loss of development opportunity, and this is of the greatest importance.
Dr. Rodney goes on to use the textile industry as an example. Whereas most nations advanced from hand made textiles to industrial mass production from the 1400s into the 1600s, Africa’s andvancement was aborted by the Europeans.
Partly by establishing a stranglehold on the distribution of cloth around the shores of Africa, and partly by swamping African products by importing cloth in bulk, European traders eventually succeeded in putting an end to the expansion of African cloth manufacture.
Over time, Africans forgot how to clothing by hand, and relied almost completely on European textiles.
Trade Imbalance
One of the common means by which one nation exploits another and one that is relevant to Africa’s external relations is exploitation through trade. When the terms of trade are set by one country in a manner entirely advantageous to itself, then the trade is usually detrimental to the trading partner. –
As part of the trade imbalance that Europe forced on its colonies, African nations were forced to pay part of the cost of producing the items it traded to reduce prices for the buyer.
Dr. Walter Rodney describes how these trade imbalances led to the accumulation of white wealth at the expense of Black productivity.
These imbalances continue to this very day, with the European Union drafted Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) which are aimed at creating a free trade area between EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.
Don't be scurred. Read the rest.
Walter Rodney And How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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