Chap 2.

• What was Africa like before colonization?
  (Who was “civilized,” who “savage”?)

Chap 4.

• What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa?

Chap 5.

• How did Africa contribute to the development of Europe? (What happened to the profits from slavery? Who profited from colonialism?)
• How did taxes work to dominate Africans?
  
• What was (is) the “international division of labor” and how did it work to keep Africans poor?

Chap 6.

• Who got the benefit of the social services provided under colonialism?
• How did “economic development” take place in Africa?
• What happened to African political development?
• What was the effect on women of colonization?
• What about the myth that tribes had long histories of animosity and when the colonial power left they turned to killing each other?
• 6.3. What was education like in Africa before colonization?
• What educational system did the colonizers put in place?
• What was the content of that education? Why?
• What was the role of missionaries?
• Why does Rodney think that the most important principle of colonial education was “individualism”? What was the effect of individualism?