Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
June 19, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
Just learned that Amiya Bagchi, political economist and economic historian of the colonial and postcolonial world, has passed away. He was 88. His books 'Private Investment in India' (1972) and 'Political Economy of Underdevelopment'(1982) remain landmark works of scholarships.
November 28, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Just learned that Amiya Bagchi, political economist and economic historian of the colonial and postcolonial world, has passed away. He was 88. His books 'Private Investment in India' (1972) and 'Political Economy of Underdevelopment'(1982) remain landmark works of scholarships.
The only thing that can be blamed on DEI is colonial underdevelopment in what is now Indonesia. And that's been gone for almost 80 years now.
January 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The only thing that can be blamed on DEI is colonial underdevelopment in what is now Indonesia. And that's been gone for almost 80 years now.
That may have been an important factor in 1800 or 1900; and it may have described late communism well; but other than than that, not a good theory of underdevelopment in the post-colonial world
December 10, 2024 at 6:43 PM
That may have been an important factor in 1800 or 1900; and it may have described late communism well; but other than than that, not a good theory of underdevelopment in the post-colonial world
"We need to challenge what underdevelopment is – if you look at colonial history, you see that it’s a project of deliberate dedevelopment."
— Farwa Sial 🇵🇰
— Farwa Sial 🇵🇰
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"We need to challenge what underdevelopment is – if you look at colonial history, you see that it’s a project of deliberate dedevelopment."
— Farwa Sial 🇵🇰
— Farwa Sial 🇵🇰
"How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment."
thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment."
thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.
thetricontinental.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2025)
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment."
thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment."
thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
"African societies are deeply integrated into global digital systems – social media, biometric IDs, mobile payments, ride-hailing & delivery apps.
African users generate enormous volumes of data, yet ownership, analytical capacity, and monetisation remain external", mirrors colonial economy.
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African users generate enormous volumes of data, yet ownership, analytical capacity, and monetisation remain external", mirrors colonial economy.
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Digital Extraction and the New Logic of Underdevelopment: Re-reading Rodney, Nkrumah, and Mbembe in the Age of Data Capitalism
Prince Ifoh argues that re-reading Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah, and Achille Mbembe allows us to see how digital capitalism reconfigures rather break with Africa’s history of underdevelopment. Prince ...
roape.net
March 11, 2026 at 12:23 PM
"African societies are deeply integrated into global digital systems – social media, biometric IDs, mobile payments, ride-hailing & delivery apps.
African users generate enormous volumes of data, yet ownership, analytical capacity, and monetisation remain external", mirrors colonial economy.
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African users generate enormous volumes of data, yet ownership, analytical capacity, and monetisation remain external", mirrors colonial economy.
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The millions of Americans who live in the so-called “insular” or “dependent” territories of the United States are in an electoral limbo. The colonial framework has led to unequal distribution of resources, underdevelopment, and discrimination. #colony
progressive.org/magazine/the...
progressive.org/magazine/the...
The United States Has a Colony Problem
The millions of Americans who live in the so-called “insular” or “dependent” territories of the United States are in an electoral limbo. The colonial framework has led to unequal distribution of resou...
progressive.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The millions of Americans who live in the so-called “insular” or “dependent” territories of the United States are in an electoral limbo. The colonial framework has led to unequal distribution of resources, underdevelopment, and discrimination. #colony
progressive.org/magazine/the...
progressive.org/magazine/the...
Vijay Prashad: How the IMF Underdevelops Africa
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/27/v...
After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/27/v...
After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
Vijay Prashad: How the IMF Underdevelops Africa
After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute ...
consortiumnews.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Vijay Prashad: How the IMF Underdevelops Africa
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/27/v...
After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/27/v...
After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
Join us on Monday, December 1 at 7 PM for the fourth session of our Socialist Study Hall: Underdevelopment and Colonial Expansion
RSVP from the link in our bio. And remember to complete the readings on the RSVP page before the session.
RSVP from the link in our bio. And remember to complete the readings on the RSVP page before the session.
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Join us on Monday, December 1 at 7 PM for the fourth session of our Socialist Study Hall: Underdevelopment and Colonial Expansion
RSVP from the link in our bio. And remember to complete the readings on the RSVP page before the session.
RSVP from the link in our bio. And remember to complete the readings on the RSVP page before the session.
And of course all of this is underwritten by Pollack’s most damaging and contemptible conclusion: that analyses which credit failures by modern Arab armies to autocracy, or post colonial underdevelopment, or overmatch by opponents are false. The real reason for military failure is Arab culture.
January 22, 2026 at 1:37 AM
And of course all of this is underwritten by Pollack’s most damaging and contemptible conclusion: that analyses which credit failures by modern Arab armies to autocracy, or post colonial underdevelopment, or overmatch by opponents are false. The real reason for military failure is Arab culture.
In case you missed it, the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness
In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow examined how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she show
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In case you missed it, the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
June 19, 2026 at 10:46 AM
The Estado Novo dictatorship began almost half a century earlier when the rise of António Salazar’s fascist regime assured the continued underdevelopment of Portugal’s colonial territories, where a system of forced labour persisted well into the 20th century.
April 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Estado Novo dictatorship began almost half a century earlier when the rise of António Salazar’s fascist regime assured the continued underdevelopment of Portugal’s colonial territories, where a system of forced labour persisted well into the 20th century.
dominant capitalist world through the historical fact of colonial subjection, by which capitalism was brought in from outside, is what lies behind the mistaken ideas of the theory of underdevelopment.”
–Samir Amin, ‘Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment’
–Samir Amin, ‘Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment’
December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM
dominant capitalist world through the historical fact of colonial subjection, by which capitalism was brought in from outside, is what lies behind the mistaken ideas of the theory of underdevelopment.”
–Samir Amin, ‘Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment’
–Samir Amin, ‘Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment’
Increased refugee flows to North America and Europe are the logical outcome of centuries of colonial exploitation, economic underdevelopment, geopolitical interventions, environmental degradation, and political destabilization throughout Latin America, Africa, and South Asia.
October 6, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Increased refugee flows to North America and Europe are the logical outcome of centuries of colonial exploitation, economic underdevelopment, geopolitical interventions, environmental degradation, and political destabilization throughout Latin America, Africa, and South Asia.
The recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness ' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness ' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness
In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow examined how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she show
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness ' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness ' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
In case you missed it, the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness
In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow examined how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she show
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In case you missed it, the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent is now available!
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment
www.reddit.com/r/Colonialis...
www.reddit.com/r/Colonialis...
June 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment
www.reddit.com/r/Colonialis...
www.reddit.com/r/Colonialis...
Have you watched the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent?
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness
In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow examined how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she show
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Have you watched the recording of our October #IdentitiesEvent?
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow
youtu.be/ZDg4dB22nqM
@aaronwinter.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
There’s another layer of complexity when you consider modern day imperialism- the only reason the colonial world could develop so much is because of the intentional underdevelopment of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. These places’ labor and resources were used for the capitalist West. Without 3/4
December 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM
There’s another layer of complexity when you consider modern day imperialism- the only reason the colonial world could develop so much is because of the intentional underdevelopment of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. These places’ labor and resources were used for the capitalist West. Without 3/4
oh this lets me tell one of my favorite stories of colonial underdevelopment.
so the US intervened in the Philippine Revolution on the side of itself. after a truly astonishing number of Filipino deaths, it determined this was a bad idea.
the anti-imperialists in Congress wanted to ensure that...
so the US intervened in the Philippine Revolution on the side of itself. after a truly astonishing number of Filipino deaths, it determined this was a bad idea.
the anti-imperialists in Congress wanted to ensure that...
January 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
oh this lets me tell one of my favorite stories of colonial underdevelopment.
so the US intervened in the Philippine Revolution on the side of itself. after a truly astonishing number of Filipino deaths, it determined this was a bad idea.
the anti-imperialists in Congress wanted to ensure that...
so the US intervened in the Philippine Revolution on the side of itself. after a truly astonishing number of Filipino deaths, it determined this was a bad idea.
the anti-imperialists in Congress wanted to ensure that...
Heloise Weber explores the role of native elites and their complicity in colonial knowledge production, especially through the reproduction of modernization theory in development studies 8/ www.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/on-t...
On the politics of decolonization theory and practice
International institutional policy, shaped by a globally entrenched explanatory framework of development and underdevelopment, perpetuates the suppression of knowledge production aimed at challengi…
www.duckofminerva.com
April 5, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Heloise Weber explores the role of native elites and their complicity in colonial knowledge production, especially through the reproduction of modernization theory in development studies 8/ www.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/on-t...