“If economic power is centered outside national African boundaries, then political and military power in any real sense is also centered outside until, and unless, the masses of peasants and workers are mobilized to offer an alternative to the system of sham political independence” from How Europe Undervalued Africa.
Here, Rodney criticizes the idea that African independence should automatically come with economic stability. For Rodney, the means of material sustenance for Africans have never really been within their control.
