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By Clairmont Chung

The lifetime of the good Guyanese student and progressive Walter Rodney burned with a unprecedented depth. The son of operating category mom and dad, Rodney confirmed nice educational promise and was once presented scholarships to the college of the West Indies in Jamaica and the varsity of African and Oriental reviews in London. He obtained his PhD from the latter on the age of twenty-four, and his thesis was once released as A historical past of the higher Guinea Coast, now a vintage of African background. His most renowned paintings, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, is a mainstay of radical literature and expected the influential global structures conception of Immanuel Wallerstein.
 
Not content material basically to check the area, Rodney grew to become to innovative politics in Jamaica, Tanzania, and in Guyana. In his fatherland, he helped shape the operating People’s Alliance (WPA) and used to be a constant voice for the oppressed and exploited. As Rodney turned extra renowned , the specter of his innovative message stirred fears one of the strong in Guyana and during the Caribbean, and he used to be assassinated in 1980.
 
This publication provides a relocating and insightful portrait of Rodney via by way of the phrases of teachers, writers, artists, and political activists who knew him in detail or felt his effect. those casual reminiscences and reflections display why Rodney is this type of commonly well-known determine during the international, specially in negative international locations and between oppressed peoples everywhere.

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