![]() This article aims to bring the category of ‘primitive accumulation’ into the vocabulary of critical and Marxist international On the other hand, the paper disagrees vehemently with Rodney's conclusion that only Europe underdeveloped Africa. ![]() On the one hand, the paper concurs with Rodney's argument that every society has its own sense of development. It is against this backdrop this paper examines and critiques Walter Rodney's concept of development. In his best known book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Rodney alludes to slavery and colonization as the bane of development in Africa. But the questions now are these: when we talk about development and underdevelopment what exactly do we mean? Do we really have a nation that is fully developed in all ramifications of life? Or on what grounds do we conclude that this country is developed and the other is underdeveloped? One scholar who has come up with illuminating and expository answers to these questions is Walter Rodney. The third category is the class of "underdeveloped nations". The first and second categories include the class of nations some scholars refer to as" developed nations" and "developing nations" respectively. But the reality of our world today informs that three categories exist in profiling nations. ![]() It is within the purview of commonsense to say that no nation feels comfortable to be addressed as underdeveloped nation. ![]()
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