Walter Rodney 1973
Published by: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, London and Tanzanian Publishing House, Dar-Es-Salaam 1973, Transcript from 6th reprint, 1983;
Transcribed: by Joaquin Arriola.
To
Pat, Muthoni, Mashaka and
the extended family
Chapter One. Some Questions on Development
1.1 What is Development
1.2 What is Underdevelopment?
Chapter Two. How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans up to the 15th Century
2.1 General Over-View
2.2 Concrete Examples
Chapter Three. Africa’s Contribution to European Capitalist Development — the Pre-Colonial Period
3.1 How Europe Became the Dominant Section of a World-Wide Trade System
3.2 Africa’s contribution to the economy and beliefs of early capitalist Europe
Chapter Four. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment — to 1885
4.1 The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment
4.2 Technological Stagnation and Distortion of the African Economy in the Pre-Colonial Epoch
4.3 Continuing Politico-Military Developments in Africa — 1500 to 1885
Chapter Five. Africa’s Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe — the Colonial Period
5.1 Expatriation of African Surplus Under Colonialism
5.2 The Strengthening of Technological and Military Aspects of Capitalism
Chapter Six. Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
6.1 The Supposed Benefits of Colonialism to Africa
6.2 Negative Character of the Social, Political and Economic Consequences
6.3 Education for Underdevelopment
6.4 Development by Contradiction