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@NgugiWaThiongo_ is "celebrated as a nationalist writer when he's speaking about taking over the white highlands but when he writes about the exploitation of africans over africans, he finds himself in a Kenyan detention camp"#WalterRodney 1978

Happy 85th birthday to our legend

...and here's Day 7 of #inktober, showing Walter Rodney. He was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," first published in 1972. You can buy this and several other drawings as postcards or other products at https://l-boe.redbubble.com/
#WalterRodney #MastoArt #Guyana #AntiColonial

https://archive.org/details/walterrodney

Walter Rodney, un historien engagé (1942-1980) by Amzat Boukari-Yabara

Topics
#WalterRodney, #Guyana, #Guyanesehistory, #PanAfricanism, #Guyane, #Panafricanisme, #biography, #biographies, #Africanhistory, #Tanzania, #Caribbean, #revolutionaries, #marxism, #marxists, #marxisme, #biographie, #historians, #histoireAfricaine, #historiens, #colonialism, #neocolonialism, #néocolonialisme, #britishcolonialism, #anticolonialism, #anticolonialisme, #Tanzanie, #Caraïbe, #Caraïbes, #Caribbeanhistory, #histoiredesCaraïbes

Ce livre analyse la vie et l’œuvre de l’historien et homme politique de Guyana, Walter Rodney (1942-1980), ses années de formation, ses influences, son idéologie, et son action politique.

Alors que Rodney a fait l’objet d’une demi-douzaine de monographies en anglais, cet ouvrage est le premier travail en français consacré à cet historien anglophone. Il s’adresse autant à un public universitaire travaillant sur les mondes africains qu’à un public « militant » engagé sur les questions de développement et de luttes sociales.

https://archive.org/details/rodney-eusi

Walter Rodney by Eusi Kwayana

Topics
#WalterRodney, #Guyana, #WorkingPeoplesAlliance, #socialism, #antiimperialism, #Guyanesepolitics, #WPA, #PeoplesProgressiveParty, #PPP, #PeoplesNationalCongress, #PNC, #history, #SouthAmerica, #Caribbean

from the description on the final page:

“This booklet contains two articles on Walter Rodney by Eusi Kwayana. The first, a description of ‘those days’ was written in early 1985 in response to a request from friends of Walter associated with the Walter Rodney bookshop and Race Today Collective in the UK. … The second briefly discusses Rodney's contribution to the struggle for bread and justice. It was written in 1981…”