Underdeveloped Africa (The Rape of the Motherland)

It has been said that Africa is the motherland of all nations, giving birth to every race and creed that walks the earth today. It was so rich and full of life, culture, and promise. That is until the untimely colonization (or what I would like to call the rape of the motherland.) Throughout Walter Rodney's book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa the term rape is all that came to mind as an idea of what really happened to Africa's history (and more importantly her future.)

Generally those who are the victims of rape, abuse, or any sort of harassment become oppressed, depressed, and lose the fertility of their normal attributes. That description alone sounds like Africa in a summary. As European colonist continued to come in unexpected and take what they wanted, Africa began to diminish and lose her fertility. African lost its natural resources used to feed her children, the strength to prosper, and once bright future she held.

Now after suffering centuries of abuse and anguish, Africa is left hurt and depleted of her power and fertility to recover from such events. It is truly sad to see how much pain and mistreatment that was given by her own children, the product of her own labor. This is what I took from Rodney's book, that the motherland was ravaged by her own seed.