The Dar es Salaam years
In the early 1970s, Walter Rodney, expelled from Jamaica, took a post in Tanzania. In Leo Zeilig’s new book, he captures those exciting, but also difficult years and how it formed Rodney.
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Leo Zeilig
Leo Zeilig is coordinator of Review of African Political Economy’s website.
Walter Rodney was way ahead of his time
Rediscovered lectures Walter Rodney gave in 1978 in Hamburg shows a reflective intellectual, thinking critically about postcolonial African governance.
The militant philosopher of Third World liberation
In 1953 Fanon moved to Algeria to work in the small town of Blida, about 50
The Roots of Africa’s Present Condition
Today sees the relaunch of the famed Review of African Political Economy, this time on the
October 15, 1987: The Murder of Thomas Sankara
Note left at Thomas Sankara’s graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”
The founding father of African history in France
Jean Suret-Canale changed the face of African history for African activists, students and intellectuals.