How Africa Developed Europe

N. Mhango

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Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses. Development is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa developed Europe; and thereby became underdeveloped. Addressed academically, the notion of development creates many questions amongst which are: Development in what? Whose development? Development for whom? Who defines development? In this volume, the development dealt with is polygonal; and touches on politico-economic sequels which also affect the social aspect. No doubt. Africa is abundantly rich in terms of resource and culture. Paradoxically, however, Africa is less developed economically compared to Europe thanks to the history of unequal encounters, among other reasons. We cannot emphasise enough the fact that Africa’s underdevelopment is the price of the development of Europe which is based on historical realities gyrating around Europe’s criminal past wherein slavery and colonialism enabled Europe to spawn its future capital and investment. How can anyone quibble about Europe’s development resulting from perpetual plunderage of Africa with impunity committed by European treasure-hunting adventurers? This volume prescribes Africa’s restorative recompense as the only way forward for the duo and the world.

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• African Studies

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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 19 février 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956764235
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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How Africa Developed Europe: Deconstructing the HIS-STORY
Nkwazi N. Mhango
of Africa, Excavating Untold Truth and What Ought to Be Done and Known
How Africa Developed
Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one
addresses. Development is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa
developed Europe; and thereby became underdeveloped. Addressed Europe:
academically, the notion of development creates many questions
amongst which are: Development in what? Whose development?
Development for whom? Who defi nes development? In this volume, Deconstructing the HIS-STORY of Africa,
the devdealt with is polygonal; and touches on
politicoeconomic sequels which also affect the social aspect. No doubt. Africa Excavating Untold Truth and What Ought to
is abundantly rich in terms of resource and culture. Paradoxically,
Be Done and Knownhowever, Africa is less developed economically compared to Europe
thanks to the history of unequal encounters, among other reasons. We
cannot emphasise enough the fact that Africa’s underdevelopment is
the price of the development of Europe which is based on historical
realities gyrating around Europe’s criminal past wherein slavery and
colonialism enabled Europe to spawn its future capital and investment.
How can anyone quibble about Europe’s development resulting from
perpetual plunderage of Africa with impunity committed by European
treasure-hunting adventurers? This volume prescribes Africa’s
restorative recompense as the only way forward for the duo and the
world.
NKWAZI MHANGO is the author of Saa ya Ukombozi, Nyuma ya
Pazia, Souls on Sale, Born with Voice, Africa Reunite or Perish, Psalm of
the Oppressed, Perpetual Search, Africa’s Best and Worst President: How
Neocolonialism and Imperialism Maintained Venal Rules in Africa and ‘Is
It Global War on Terrorism’ or Global War over Terra Africana?: The Ruse
Imperial Powers Use to Occupy Africa Militarily for Economic Gains.
Langaa Research & Publishing
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How Africa Developed Europe
Deconstructing the His-story of
Africa, Excavating Untold Truth and
What Ought to Be Done and Known




Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango


























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ISBN-10: 9956-764-94-9
ISBN-13: 978-9956-764-94-5

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Table of Contents


Abbreviations ....................................................................................... v
Acknowledgements ............. vii
Preface ................................................................................................... ix

Chapter One: How Africa Developed Europe ......................... 1
Introduction ................................................................ 1
How Europe Laid the Foundations for the
Exploitation of Africa ......................................................................... 13

Chapter Two: How Europe Decreated and
Reinvented Africa Ready for Exploitation ................................ 29
How Europe Corrupted African Brains as
Means to Colonisation ........................................ 33
How Religion Made Ungodly Godly as the Colonial Agent ......... 42
How Colonialism and Religion Are Bedfellows;
Who Did What and Why ................................................................... 46

Chapter Three: How Robbing Africa
Developed Europe ............................................................................ 65
How Competitive Advantage and Power
Differentials Helped Europe ............................................................. 82

Chapter Four: How Missionaries Spread
Toxic Gospel in Africa .................................................................... 95
How Europe Used Democracy to Further
Colonialism in Africa .......... 106
How Fake Elitism Perpetually Ruined
Africa’s Economies ............................................................................. 114

Chapter Five: How Democracy Is a
Double-Edged Sword ...................................................................... 125
How Organic African Democracy and
Development Were Ignored .............................. 138

iii Chapter Six: How Africa’s Underdevelopment
Became a Myth to Save Europe ................................................... 147
How Who Defines What, How and Why
Negatively Impacted on Africa.......................... 148
How [Under] Development is and Whose Needs Matter? ........... 154

Chapter Seven: How Aid Became another
European Hypnotic Tool in Africa.............................................. 175
How Africa’s Role in the Industrial Revolution ............................. 187

Chapter Eight: How Europe and the Vatican
Colluded in Robbing Africa ........................................................... 203
How Tanzania’s Stance Shows the Way Forward .......................... 213
How Africa Internalised and Reinforced Underdevelopment ...... 217
How Africa Takes Some Things for Granted ................................. 225

Chapter Nine: How Can Africa Heed Its Wake-up Call ....... 233
How Cultural Imperialism Misdefined Africa ................................. 243
How Europe’s Redress of Africa Is a Sine Qua Non .................... 255
How Africa Needs Paradigm Shift Shall It
Want to Catch Up ............................................................................... 261

References........................................................................................... 275

iv Acknowledgements


This book was enabled to come into being by the humungous
contribution from my wife Nesaa that I cherish and relish who, as
always, has never complained about my academic adventures. Her
cooperation and support are second to none. I remember how I used
to change many family topics into academic discourse in order to get
her responses on various issues I raised in this compendium. Boring,
as they always are, academic topics and its general narrative need a
person who seriously care, especially when such a person is
specialised in a different discipline.
So, too, I am indebted to:
My young professors our children Ng’ani, Nkuzi and Nkwazi Jr.
who oft like to help even where they do not know what they are
doing. They have always been around my computer giving me a hard
time of explaining almost everything since they believe that their dad
knows everything. One important thing I appreciate about these little
creatures is the fact that they know that their dad makes book.
My brother colleague and friends professor, Eliakim Sibanda
(University of Winnipeg) spent much of his precious time digging
hole on my manuscript so as to improve it. Brother professor
Munyaradzi Mawere (Great Zimbabwe University) spent his precious
time to assess the title not to mention my mentor professor Sean
Byrne who reminded the importance of touching on her-story along
with his-story as Europe concocted, doctored, desecrated and
fabricated it. Brother Artwell Nhemachena (University of Namibia),
as well, liked the idea and told me to tweak it.
My friends and readers Salih Hassan Ibrahim aka Darfur
(Winnipeg, Canada) and Sirili Akko (Arusha, Tanzania and friends
who always want to be the first to grab the copy of whatever comes
out; and Langaa my publishers that have always been instrumental to
my writing adventure, to all I am, indeed, beh.




v
vi Preface


Although Africa has sadly always been seen as a doomed continent,
it played a very pivotal role in the development of others, particularly
Europe. This is because its actual history has never been known.
What is known is a besmirched, distasteful, miswritten and
misrepresented story of the white man on Africa or his-story that is
taken as the history of Africa. Factually, without Africa’s contribution
through blood and resources, Europe the world knows of today
would not be or look like it is. It is only through Africa’s profound
and humongous contribution that produced the Europe the world
knows of today. Through slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism,