PALI LEHOHLA | Turning Africa’s underdevelopment into hard data

Fifty years after Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’, a new statistical framework maps the slave trade and colonial extraction onto today’s poverty patterns — and proposes a formula to reverse the drain

PALI LEHOHLA | Turning Africa’s underdevelopment into hard data
Fifty years after Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’, a new statistical framework maps the slave trade and colonial extraction onto today’s poverty patterns — and proposes a formula to reverse the drain