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Walter Rodney - A Promise of Revolution (Paperback)
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Walter Rodney - A Promise of Revolution (Paperback)
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Loot Price R345
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The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter
Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class
parents, Rodney showed great academic promise and was awarded
scholarships to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and
the School of African and Oriental Studies in London. He received
his PhD from the latter at the age of twenty-four, and his thesis
was published as A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, now a classic
of African history. His most famous work, How Europe Underdeveloped
Africa, is a mainstay of radical literature and anticipated the
influential world systems theory of Immanuel Wallerstein. Not
content merely to study the world, Rodney turned to revolutionary
politics in Jamaica, Tanzania, and in Guyana. In his homeland, he
helped form the Working People's Alliance (WPA) and was a
consistent voice for the oppressed and exploited. As Rodney became
more popular, the threat of his revolutionary message stirred fears
among the powerful in Guyana and throughout the Caribbean, and he
was assassinated in 1980. This book presents a moving and
insightful portrait of Rodney through by the words of academics,
writers, artists, and political activists who knew him intimately
or felt his influence. These informal recollections and reflections
demonstrate why Rodney is such a widely admired figure throughout
the world, especially in poor countries and among oppressed peoples
everywhere.
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