HELLO MY BROTHER AND SISTERS I KNOW THAT WE AS PERSONS OF AFRICAN DESCENT ARE IN A POSITION THAT AT TIMES MAY SEEM CHAOTIC AND CONFUSING BUT PLEASE HEAR MY WORDS MY SCREEN NAME MAY BE "THE PHANTOM" BUT THIS IS MY LIFE'S LIVING LEGAYCY LISTEN Because of the superficiality of many of the approaches to 'underdevelopment', and because of resulting misconceptions, it is necessary to re-emphasise that development and underdevelopment are not only comparative terms, but that they also have a dialectical relationship one to the other: that is to say, the two help produce each other by interaction. Western Europe and Africa had a relationship which ensured the transfer of wealth from Africa to Europe. The transfer was possible only after trade became truly international; and that takes one back to the late 15th century when Africa and Europe were drawn into common relations for the first time — along with Asia and the Americas. The developed and underdeveloped parts of the present capitalist section of the world have been in continuous contact four and a half centuries. The contention here is that over that period Africa helped to develop Western Europe in the same proportion as Western Europe helped to underdevelop Africa.
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