Only 38 years old when he was killed, Dr. Walter Rodney was an internationally acclaimed author of six scholarly books and numerous academic articles that documented the devastating effects of slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean.

Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. He was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1980.

Walter Rodney provided a new construct for development theory and established a framework for analyzing current global socio-economic and political issues; thus becoming one of the first to bring a different perspective to the question of underdevelopment in Africa.

Dec 1, 2009 · Walter Rodney, one of the most important Guyanese intellectual and political figures of the 20th Century, was born on March 23, 1942 in Georgetown, Guyana. Because of his working-class background, the period in which he lived, and his parents’ political awareness, Rodney was introduced to issues of race, class, and empire at an early age.

Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and preeminent scholar, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.

Jun 13, 2020 · Rodney, a popular opposition figure in Guyana known as much for his sharp critiques of capitalism as his disapproval of the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, was killed when a bomb exploded in the car driven by his brother.

After being banned from Jamaica, Walter Rodney returned to Tanzania to teach history at the University of Dar es Salaam. Here he was at the forefront of establishing an intellectual tradition which still today makes Dar es Salaam one of the centres of discussion of …

Walter Rodney was an exceptional scholar-activist who not only interpreted the consequences of centuries of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism but also engaged in the struggles to change their racial, social and economic legacies.

May 21, 2018 · Rodney, Walter. March 23, 1942 June 13, 1980. Walter Rodney, whose father was a tailor and whose mother was a homemaker, was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He won a government scholarship that enabled him to enter Queen's College, then the leading secondary educational institution in the colony.

Jun 29, 2020 · Born in Georgetown, Guyana, on 23 March 1942, Walter Anthony Rodney an icon of the Pan-African, Rastafari, and Black Power revolutions which culminated in the late 1960s. Rodney’s most famous and controversial book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, was published in Dar es Salaam in 1972.