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Title: Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought (African American Life (Hardcover)) by Rupert Lewis, Rupert Charles Lewis ISBN: 0-8143-2743-5 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Summary: An amazing account of a Caribbean scholar-activist
Comment: The scholar-activist Walter Rodney (1942-1980) was born in Georgetown, Guyana and died a tragic death in Guyana as a result of a car bomb assassination designed to mute his political activity. Rodney was an activist in Caribbean islands other than Guyana (especially Jamaica), Africa (especially Tanzania), and the United States (especially Atlanta). Rodney made it a life project to produce scholarship that would remain linked to working-class and progressive movements. He joins Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, and Sylvia Wynter as one of the leading twentieth-century Caribbean revolutionary intellectuals whose work brings together concerns for the Caribbean, North America, and Africa. Unlike the theoretical works of Fanon and James, the works of Wynter and Rodney have not received yet the critical attention they deserve. Rodney is best known for his political activism and text HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA. However, like Wynter, Rodney's oeuvre extents in space and time well beyond one period of life or one text.
Jamaican theorist and leading Marcus Garvey scholar Rupert Lewis has outdone himself by composing this first single-authored biography of Rodney. This book is a breathtaking account of Rodney's life as it relates particularly to his political activity in Tanzania, Jamaica, and Guyana. Lewis attended the University of the West Indies, Mona (Jamaica) while Rodney was a professor there and thus is able to provide firsthand accounts of Rodney's life in conjunction with other political activities occurring in Jamaica at the time. Lewis devotes a powerful chapter to discussing Rodney's involvement with the cultural politics of Rastafarianism and rude boys. In addition, Lewis provides detailed accounts of Rodney's investigations into African history, Caribbean Marxism, Pan-Africanism, and Caribbean politics.
A central objective of Lewis remains highlighting the contributions of West Indians such as Rodney to the struggles of African societies fighting against colonialism and the interconnectedness between Africa and the Caribbean. As Lewis writes in the Introduction, "It is to this task of understanding the unity of his [Rodney's] African and Caribbean concerns, in the early years after political independence, that this study is dedicated." I urge all of you reading this review to get this amazing political biography whether you are familiar with Rodney's work or are encountering Rodney for the first time. What a read!!!