POLS 3000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Debt Relief, Tied Aid, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2 Mar 2017
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Walter rodney, how europe underdeveloped africa, chapter 34 in roy richard grinker and. Christopher b. steiner, perspectives on africa: a reader in culture, history, and. Many would say that the goods that colonialism did for africa outweigh the bad but. Colonialism had only one hand - it was a one-armed-bandit. (585) For the first three decades of colonialism, hardly anything was done that could remotely be termed a service to the african people. It was in fact only after the last war that social services were built as a matter of policy. (585) In british east africa, there were three groups: firstly, the europeans, who got the most; then, the indians, who took most of what was left; and thirdly, the africans, who came last in their own country. (586) The financial institutions of colonial africa were even more scandalously neglectful of indigenous african interests than was the case with the european-oriented communications system.
