"What really happened to the rest of the world under Western expansion? How is the backlash to that expansion contributing to the global crisis of today? The West and the rest of us documents that expansion and investigates its predatory nature. It then focuses, as a case study, upon the Euro-African connection of the past five-hundred-years, showing also the role of African complicity in the subjugation of Africa by the West. In doing so Chinweizu examines areas of African history that have been deliberately veiled. Black Slavers: how they cooperated in preparing Africa for conquest. Unequal exchange: the mechanism used to impoverish Africa. The myths of racism: their usefulness as ploys to keep Africa oppressed. African 'independence': a fake product of the grand fraud of decolonization. The poorfare state: Africa in the grip of Western 'aid' and maldevelopment. The African elite: the spiritual descendants and operational equivalents of the Black Slavers. This new edition updates the account by examining the faltering of Western power under the impacts of Vietnam and OPEC. It looks into the subsequent Third World campaign for a New International Economic Order, and why it failed. It shows how, inhibited by the privileges they enjoyed as political supervisors of neo-colonial rentier states, the elites of most Third World states preferred Cargo Cult Maldevelopment to development, and declined to force a general economic decolonization even after OPEC had shown them how to proceed. The ending of neo-colonialism was, thus, postponed, not simply by the intransigence of the West, but with the complicity of Third World elites themselves"--Back cover of the paperback edition.