Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Groundbreaking work on slave economy finally back on UK shelves

Arguably the best validation of the thesis is by Joseph Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England, a major book.

 

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Nimi Wariboko <nimiwari@msn.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 5:14 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Groundbreaking work on slave economy finally back on UK shelves

Dear Oga Cornelius:

Thanks for sharing this. I really appreciate it. In my undergraduate days(1980-1984) at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Professors like Claude Ake made us read this great book. As a leader of the Marxist youth movement both at Uniport and in the country, this book was Bible to me. I loved it so much that when I came to Columbia University, New York for my MBA and met a fellow business school student who was from Trinidad and Tobago I immediately became friends with her. She was the closest person I could reach to come into the ambience of the great Eric Williams. I felt I was vicariously meeting him through her. I wanted to discuss the book with the "daughter of the soil," to know how it felt to come from the land of an excellent thinker who revolutionized how the world thought about slavery and capitalism. Alas, she had not read the book and, in fact, did not know about the basic thesis of the book. I was disappointed, hugely disappointed. She was not aware of the book. 

 

Thanks, Cornelius for reminding me of this book. I will go back to it. William's book and Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" were canonical in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Port Harcourt. We also read books by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, two American Marxists. We also read Nigerian and African scholars. But this is a story for another time. 

 

Blessings,

 

Nimi Wariboko

Boston University 

On Jan 24, 2022, at 10:40 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/eighty-years-late-groundbreaking-work-on-slave-economy-is-finally-published-in-uk 

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