How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney wrote a great and insightful article titled How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, book not only showed another side to what happened in Africa, but it did it in a very straight forward manner. Rodney did not try to pull an wool over anyone's eyes, or sugar coat anything. He saw what happened in Africa for exactly what it was, and wrote about it so that others all saw in to the darkness of what Europe called "colonization". Rodney showed what was going on in Africa not only during colonization but also before. This gives any reader more insight to what effect Europe really had on Africa. It shows just how much things changed, as well as what was possible if Africa had not had a Holocaust of its own.

The Europeans (and others) came to Africa on what I call the "greed movement". They saw Africa and all of its resources as something for the taking and it did not matter what they had to do. They came for the ivory, rubber and anything else that they could get their hands on. In my eyes greed was the driving force for colonization. It was not about anyone making anything better or for helping anyone. It was all about what people could get out of it for themselves. I do not honestly believe that any human being could allow themselves to be involved in the violence, the killing, and the torture that was put on the people of Africa unless there was something that they were getting out of it. Something that was truly of some value and great worth. I truly believe that greed is what started it, continued it, and still today is what will still going to finish it.