Do All Roads Lead Down to the Sea?

How did geo politics, countersurgency, oil and maritime trade determine the constructionf interior transportation in for structure, across the colonial gulf? And to day, do all roads, in some sense, still lead down to the sea? That's a really great question. I have to say that walter rodney book, any excuse that i can have, i's how europe underdeveloped africa. Any excuse at all o cite that, i will. But it is one of the most amazing books,. In part because it is so incredibly lucid about the importance of these lamd base infra structures in colonial extractif economies, in warfare, et cetera.