![]() Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant and revolutionary from Guyana. For the roots of these conditions of “under-development,” one historical account stands alone in importance: Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Yet most ordinary Africans live in dire poverty with diminished life expectancy, high unemployment and in societies with low-levels of industry. His book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a classic that must be carefully studied by activists and scholars today.Ī number of African economies have experienced a massive boom in wealth and investment over the past decade. She writes how he was influenced by Marxist ideas and remains central to the Pan-Africanist canon for many on the left. ![]() ![]() In the final blog for, writer and activist Lee Wengraf celebrates Walter Rodney, the scholar, working class militant and revolutionary from Guyana who was murdered 37 years ago this week. ![]()
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