African History Series: Walter Rodney on Crisis in the Periphery

Walter Rodney was a historian, political activist, and academic. Born in 1942 in Georgetown Guyana, Rodney’s research focused on slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, his home city, in 1980 at the age of 38.  In this episode, we produced Walter Rodney’s lecture on “Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean.”