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On an Oil Drum: Walter Rodney's revolutionary organising and the trip to Hamburg in 1978
09 December 2020, 5:30 pm鈥�7:30 pm
Between April and June of 1978, Walter Rodney, then already an important intellectual for his book, 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa', was invited to teach a course, 'One Hundred Years of Development in Africa,' at the University of Hamburg.
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UCL Institute of the Americas
What we see in the Hamburg lectures is a shift in Rodney鈥檚 work toward the self-activity鈥攖he occupations and 'wild-cat strikes'鈥攐f the
working class, not as鈥痮ne鈥痮f numerous players in the revolution, but as鈥痶he鈥痗entral organizing force.
is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africa鈥檚 most important political thinkers and activists. He is an editor of the and a Senior Research Fellow at the .
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