Africa Wasn't Poor. It Was Robbed. Walter Rodney Proved It.

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Europe didn't just colonize Africa — it systematically dismantled it. Walter Rodney proved it with data, economics, and history in one of the most important books ever written: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972).y Rodney showed that Africa's poverty wasn't natural or accidental. It was engineered — through the slave trade, the destruction of African industry, the suppression of African education, and the reorientation of African agriculture to serve European markets. The book became required reading on every continent. Liberation movements studied it. Governments banned it. And in 1980, at just 38 years old, Walter Rodney was assassinated by a bomb — with an official inquiry later confirming his own government, backed by Western Cold War powers, was responsible. The book outlived the bomb. The argument still stands. 🌍 Africa's Own — Pan-African history, every week. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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