Image Credits: Walter Rodney, 2015, SOAS University of London
(1970) - The Imperialist Partition of Africa - Walter Rodney
In The Imperialist Partition of Africa, Rodney expands by providing many examples of the imperialist countries, Britain, France, and Germany, coming into the African continent as a "white racist virus" and dividing the continent up for extraction. Africa was seen as the great unknown. As such, it was appealing to extract resources from and exploit its land and people. He goes on to highlight particular countries such as the Congo, Central African Republic, and South Africa, and their extensive resources which imperialists saw as a means of gaining further control, capital, and overall increased monopoly.
When Europe became interested in the raw materials of the continent, capital was sent to transform Africans into workers and peasants producing for the capitalist market.