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4 days ago · An important critique along these lines was first articulated by the Guyanese historian Walter Rodney in his 1972 book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. 22 Rodney argued that Africa’s social and economic development had been stunted by the unequal relationship between Europe and African societies.
9 hours ago · Introduction: Why Europe Needs Africa (and Africa Needs Europe) In 2017, Africa’s population under twenty-five years old surpassed the total population of Europe. By 2050, Africa will have added 796 million people to the workforce, while Europe’s working-age population (aged sixteen to sixty-four) will decline by 156 million. 1.
1 day ago · The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
5 days ago · European penetration into Southern Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the time the Cape changed hands during the Napoleonic Wars, humanitarians were vigorously campaigning against slavery, and in 1807 they succeeded in persuading Britain to abolish the trade; British antislavery ships soon patrolled the western coast of Africa.
1 day ago · In the northeast, Africa was joined to Asia by the Sinai Peninsula until the construction of the Suez Canal. Paradoxically, the coastline of Africa—18,950 miles (30,500 km) in length—is shorter than that of Europe, because there are few inlets and few large bays or gulfs.
1 day ago · The episode was not found or is unavailable. In November 2023, ECDPM published a paper (in English and in French) analysing some of the political and practical implications of the EU development policy shifts in Kenya and Cameroon. It found that the new instrument NDICI-Global Europe, the Global gateway strategy, as well as the geopolitical ...
9 hours ago · Walter Rodney, in his 1972 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, proposes the idea that imperialism is a phase of capitalism "in which Western European capitalist countries, the US, and Japan established political, economic, military and cultural hegemony over other parts of the world which were initially at a lower level and therefore could not ...
