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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
DR DAVID GORDON SCOTT tells the story of the North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, as part of the ongoing work of remembrance of those killed by soldiers during the 1825 Seafarers Strike and the bicentennial commemorations on Sunday August 3
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
JOHN CALLOW tells of the rise, fall and rise again of a young martyr to the early French republic, Joseph Bara, whose short life was elevated by Robespierre and, later, others for its emotional and ideological appeal
April 9 1928 – July 26 2025
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
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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