It is pertinent to mention that Europe in the period under study is not justified to tag Africa under-developed nor African assume same of Europe. In the recent years, Africans and foreigners whom are well grounded in history have come to discover this misleading thought about African history and have made considerable effort to proving to the world that Africa had developed an organized society, where a lot of developmental activities took place for many centuries.Ĭhapter two title “How Africa Developed before the coming of the European Up To the 5th Century” of the book “How Europe Under Developed Africa” by Walter Rodney, is a careful analysis and explanation of various civilizations that emerged in Africa which even drew attention of the outside world (Europe and Arabia) due to great works that Africans had put in place at that time, before the coming of the Europeans, in order to correct the derogatory and barbaric picture that had being painted of Africa. Infact, most of these works were based on hearsay and mere assertion and therefore were misleading. But this assertion is far from being true as these European writers are not even justified to write any bit of African history in the first place, as they have very minimum or little knowledge of African history. The continent has been described as one with a primitive history and therefore not worthy of any historical reconstruction. The African continent over decades had been portrayed in bad light by many European historians and scholars.
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