Writing Assignment
Choose one question to answer. Your answer should be between 1 and 2 pages double spaced, not including any additional questions about the text you want to include after. Be sure to indicate wherever you are quoting or getting ideas from the text.
1. According to Rodney, what is the ultimate source of wealth / economic productivity? How does his theory of where wealth comes from affect his explanation of how underdevelopment works? Is this the same or different from the explanation in the textbook?
2. Who, very specifically, benefitted from the colonial system? What work did they have to do to keep it in place? Were there any people who helped to maintain colonialism that surprised you?
3. Rodney shows that not all native people had the same relationship to the colonizing powers. What are the main social divisions within the colonized societies in Africa that Rodney talks about?
Referencing: MLA