How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Africans were deliberately robbed of everything they had, and even the things they didnt know they had. After doing a little research once I finished reading Rodney's essay, I saw that there is some criticsm regarding his oversimplification of the relationship between Africa and Europe...although I do agree with this in portions of the essay the thing that really captured my attention was the "European scholar's" chart displaying the complete stagnation of the African population! In addition to this, Rodney makes the valid point that obviously Africa was dessimated by Europe...how did they expect NOT to be?? They were getting robbed blind and there wasnt much they could do since Europe had been treated them like cattle from the very beginning.

A crucial reason that Africa had completely ruined its economy and population was becasue, as Rodney says, exploiting resources and labour inside the country where the goods and workers is one thing, but to take the goods and people somewhere else to work not only decreases the population but it also just doesnt logically make any sense!! Even though, (OBVIOUSLY) slavery is one the most inhumane cruelties, its even worse that essentially the entire continent of Africa become enslaved as nothing more than a breeding ground for goods and workers that are being exported the second they are ready.

From the unreal salary (it takes 25 African assistants to equal the pay of 1 European) to the whopping 52 hospitals that Africa was gifted by Europe to house their 40 million population to the lack of food and money...all these things were no accident, they couldnt have been, and together they worked together (just as the Europeans knew they woud) in the complete and utter devestation of Africa.