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Walter Rodney

1942 – 1980

Guyana; Jamaica; Tanzania

Guyanese historian and activist, author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), who taught at Dar es Salaam, co-founded the Working People's Alliance, and was killed by a bomb in Georgetown in 1980.

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Guyana coast around Georgetown, Walter Rodney's home city, February 2011
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory / MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC. License: Public domain (NASA).

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Sources

  1. SOAS University of London, Centenary Timeline, "Revolutionary historian: Walter Rodney (1942-1980)" (Primary source)
  2. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Walter Rodney research guide (Primary source)
  3. Global Voices, "36 years after Guyanese activist Walter Rodney's state-sanctioned murder, a glimmer of justice" (Reference)

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