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Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation
The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
AFRICAN HERO: A Walter Rodney poster in Georgetown, Guyana

I AM in the final throes of writing a new book. It will be called The Rebirth of the African Phoenix: A View from Babylon.

The new book, which will be published in May by Manifesto Press, widens the scope of my last one, African Uhuru, which was primarily focused on the importance of black communities of resistance in Britain.

This one looks forward to the rebirth of Africa as one of the defining aspects of the remaining three-quarters of the 21st century following centuries of humiliation and exploitation.

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