3 Yet, Rodney was the only one of them who dedicated an entire book to Africa. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa engaged the theories of underdevelopment and dependency advanced by scholars such as Andre Gunder Frank and Celso Furtado. Rodney himself was killed one decade after the publication of what was his most influential book. 1 Rodney’s book came out in the aftermath of the independence of most African countries at the summit of the Cold War era, during the decline of the Black Power movement, and in the years following the assassination of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. He had already presented similar results in a previous journal article published in 1966 and explored in depth in his doctoral dissertation defended at the School of Oriental and African Studies in that same year, and then published as a book in 1970. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by historian Walter Rodney had a significant impact on the scholarship of Africa, the Atlantic slave trade, and colonialism.
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