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  • 16 - The Realities in Africa: European Profit or Negro Development? (1943)

  • W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Edited by Adom Getachew, University of Chicago, Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
  • Book:
    W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought
    Published online:
    10 November 2022
    Print publication:
    17 November 2022, pp 173-188

  • Summary

    This essay appeared in the July 1943 issue of Foreign Affairs and was part of a series of reflections on what post-war reconstruction might mean for the colonized world. Du Bois argues that the transatlantic slave trade and the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 that legitimized European territorial claims in Africa were two nodes in a history of a persistently exploitative relationship between Africa and the modern world. He predicts that in the absence of a significant restructuring of international relations, post-war reconstruction in Europe will be paid for by deepening the exploitation of Africa.