Rodney was also a father of three children – Asha, Patricia and Rodney’s third and last child, was born in Tanzania in 1971. Over a period of barely five years, he wrote on tourism, articles on socialism and development, scholarly papers on slavery, and also developed courses, organised fieldwork, and worked on extensive lecture notes on the Russian revolution for a course (which has become a posthumous book). Walter Rodney was incredibly prolific in the early 1970s. In this blogpost, Leo Zeilig looks at the context and approach Rodney took in his 1972 book. Rodney’s book took a similar approach to Eduardo Galeano’s 1971 classic, examining four hundred years of European intervention and occupation in Africa. In 1972 Walter Rodney published his masterpiece How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
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