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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