Underdevelopment and Dependence in Black Africa—Origins and Contemporary Forms

Abstract

Contemporary Black Africa can be divided into wide regions which are \nclearly different from one another.... The unity of Black Africa is, \nnonetheless, not without foundations .... [T]he striking similarities of social organisation make a living unity of Black Africa. This physical reality, \nextensive and rich, did not wait for colonial conquest to borrow from, or \ngive of itself to, the other wide regions of the Old World-the Mediterranean in particular, but also Europe and Asia. The image of an ancient, \nisolated and introverted Africa no longer belongs to this age: isolationnaturally associated with a so-called "primitive" character-

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