This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is How Europe

Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a foreword by Angela Davis.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious

masterwork of political economy detailing the impact of slavery and

colonialism on the history of international capitalism.

In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case

that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature

of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent,

a practice that continues up into the present.

Meticulously researched, how Europe underdeveloped Africa remains a relevant study

for understanding the so-called great divergence between Africa and Europe just as it

remains a prescient resource for grasping the multiplication of global

inequality today.

In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking forward to the book exploring its lasting contributions

to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a forward by Angela Davis.

Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackbinn magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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