Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on 22nd of march in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old.
Rodney attended the University College of the West Indies in 1960 and was awarded a first class honors degree in History in 1963. He later earned a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, at the age of 24.
Rodney traveled extensively and became well-known as an activist, scholar, and formidable orator. He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania from 1966-67 and 1969-1974, and in 1968 at his alma mater University of the West Indies.
On October 15th, 1968, the government of Jamaica declared Rodney a "persona non grata" and banned him from the country. Following his dismissal by the University of the West Indies, students and poor people in West Kingston protested, leading to the "Rodney Riots", which caused six deaths and millions of dollars in damages.
In 1972, Rodney published "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". Historian Melissa Turner describes the work this way: "A brutal critique of long-standing and persistent exploitation of Africa by Western powers, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a powerful, popular, and controversial work in which Rodney argued that the early period of African contact with Europe, including the slave trade, sowed the seeds for continued African economic underdevelopment and had dramatically negative social and political consequences as well. He argued that, while the roots of Africa’s ailments rested with intentional underdevelopment and exploitation under European capitalist and colonial systems, the only way for true liberation to take place was for Africans to become cognizant of their own complicity in this exploitation and to take back the power they gave up to the exploiters."
On June 13th, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, Guyana via a bomb given to him by Gregory Smith, a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force, one month after returning Zimbabwe. In 2015, a "Commission of Inquiry" in Guyana that the country's then president, Linden Forbes Burnham, was complicit in his murder.
"If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means."
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Decolonial Marxism Essays From The Pan African Revolution
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le digo a la gente que estoy aprendiendo español para para parecer inteligente, pero estoy leyendo comic de garfield la mayor parte de tiempo
Yo estoy usando mi habilidad de hablar japonesa para leer la manga yuri y las revistas viejas sobre los videojuegos como 64Dream. No importa lo que estás leyendo—¡lo más importante es que lées! Y si leas cosas que te gustan, es más fácil continuar de aprender y disfrutar el idioma.
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Holy shit, my Spanish is so rusty. I could only remember how to say "magazine" in Japanese and actually had to look it up, although I otherwise refrained from looking stuff up so what you see is my authentic Spanish languishing after years of underuse. I added the definite articles for "manga" and "revistas" after the fact but tbh I can't remember the rules for when you need them,..just had the vibe that I should use them here.Bien trabajo. I understood most of what you said despite your spanish being rusty. But ya Ive been reading simple stuff at the moment tho, manga and comics in spanish are great specifically because its not long passages after passages. Which is funny because now Im using my “childish” interests that Id be shamed by adults for something so productive
It's funny—just after I made that comment, I was playing a game with someone where for flavor there was a fairly long message in Spanish in an otherwise English-language game. I'm pretty sure they expected you to just stick it in a translator app, but it was fun to make the effort to actually read it in Spanish and figure out all the key information. Learned a few interesting words, too, like paradero ("whereabouts") and alentar ("to encourage"). Between the two things, this is (sadly) the most I've used Spanish in a while...perhaps it's a sign? (maybe the universe is telling me to prepare before I get shipped off to CECOT lmao)
Anyway, I totally agree! People might pooh-pooh it as childish, but boy, it's really hard to plow through long texts when you're starting out. Having panels to break up the text and give you visual context clues really makes thing more palatable. Obviously, the goal is to eventually be able to read long articles and novels and stuff, but as I said, it's more important to pick something that you'll enjoy and do consistently then it is to pick something "serious" that you hate and makes you give up.
Best of luck on your Spanish-learning journey! I'll try to keep an eye out for any more posts you make in Spanish so we can both get some practice in
jaja, yo aprendi ingles principalmente viendo videos de minecraft en youtube