![]() ![]() ![]() HEUA takes forward the Marxist theory of dependency and underdevelopment from a Pan Africanist perspective. Davis rightly calls on the readership to pick up and ‘deepen Walter Rodney’s legacy’. One of these threads, Davis notes, is how the condition of African labouring women, as well as men, was pushed down by colonialism. ![]() As well as the Introduction to the 1982 edition, written shortly after Rodney’s murder, the new edition carries a short and inspiring Foreword by Angela Davis, which sets the scene well in stating that none of the fundamental problems addressed by Rodney have been resolved. The re-edition of HEUA by Verso is to be fully welcomed. Moreover, it is an original contribution to what was known as the dependency school emanating from Latin America. The book brings together in a broad narrative the history of the African continent from a perspective that is at one and the same time Pan Africanist and Marxist. Walter Rodney wrote How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ( HEUA) in his late twenties while a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Walter Rodney, (2018) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, London/New York: Verso, 2018, paperback (with free ebook) £11.89. ![]()
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