Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.

Career[link]

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Born to a working class family, Rodney was a bright student, attending Queen's College in Guyana and then attending university on a scholarship at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica, graduating in 1963.

Rodney earned his PhD in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England. His dissertation focused on the slave trade on the upper Guinea coast. The thesis was published in 1970 under the title A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800, and it was widely acclaimed for its originality in challenging the conventional wisdom on the topic.

He traveled widely and became very well known around the world as an activist and scholar. He taught for a time in Tanzania, and later in Jamaica at his alma mater - UWI Mona. Rodney was sharply critical of the middle class for its role in the post-independence Caribbean. He was also a critic of capitalism and argued for a socialist development template.^[1]

On 15 October 1968 the government of Jamaica, led by prime minister Hugh Shearer, barred Rodney from returning to the island. The decision to ban him from ever returning to the country because of his advocacy for the working poor in that country caused riots to break out, eventually claiming the lives of several people and causing millions of dollars in damages. These riots, which started on October 16, 1968, are now known as the Rodney Riots, and they triggered an increase in political awareness across the Caribbean, especially among the Afrocentric Rastafarian sector of Jamaica, documented in his book, The Groundings With My Brothers.^[2]

Rodney became a prominent Pan-Africanist, and was important in the Black Power movement in the Caribbean and North America. While living in Dar es Salaam he was influential in developing a new centre of African learning and discussion.

Academic legacy[link]

Rodney's most influential book was How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, published in 1972. In it he described an Africa that had been consciously exploited by European imperialists, leading directly to the modern underdevelopment of most of the continent. The book became enormously influential as well as controversial.

Later years and assassination[link]

In 1974 Rodney returned to Guyana from Tanzania. He was supposed to take a position as a professor at the University of Guyana but the government prevented his appointment. He became increasingly active in politics, forming the Working People's Alliance against the PNC government. In 1979 he was arrested and charged with arson after two government offices were burned.

In 1980, Rodney was killed by a bomb in his car while running for office in Guyanese elections. Rodney was survived by his wife, Pat, and three children. Walter's brother, Donald, who was injured in the explosion, said that a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force named Gregory Smith had given Rodney the bomb that killed him. Smith fled to French Guiana after the killing, where he died in 2002.

It was, and is still widely believed, that the assignation was a set-up by then President Linden Forbes Burnham, while technically hard to prove because of his stature. During the 1970s, Burnham, a hard line socialist (much closer to Communist), continuously rigged elections, and was generally feared by the general populace much like Joseph Stalin in Russia, whom Guyana received some assistance from, and was on extremely friendly terms with. Rodney's ideas of the various groups who were all historically disenfranchised by the ruling colonial class, working together, was in conflict with Burnham's maniacal need for control.^[3]

Rodney's death was commemorated in a poem by Martin Carter entitled "For Walter Rodney" and by the dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson in "Reggae fi Radni".

In 2004, his widow, Patricia, and his children donated his papers to the Robert L. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center. Since 2004, an annual Walter Rodney Symposium has been held each 23 March (Rodney's birthday) at the Center under the sponsorship of the Library and the Political Science Department of Clark Atlanta University, and under the patronage of the Rodney family.

Works[link]

• Walter Rodney Speaks: the Making of an African Intellectual (1990)
• A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 (1981)
• Marx in the Liberation of Africa (1981)
• Guyanese Sugar Plantations in the Late Nineteenth Century: a Contemporary Description from the "Argosy" (1979)
• World War II and the Tanzanian Economy (1976)
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)
• A History of the Upper Guinea Coast (1970)
• The Groundings with my Brothers (1969)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Walter Rodney 25 Anniversary Commemoration Committee
• Walter Rodney's Heresy by Neil Roberts.
• Rodney biography
• The "Walter Rodney Effect"
• African History in the Service of the Black Liberation
• George Jackson: Black Revolutionary
• Street Speech
• Walter Rodney and Pan Africanism Today by Horace Campbell

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Derrick Morris (died July 30, 2005) was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient.

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Corey Harris
Corey Harris @ Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival (2003)
Background information
Born	(1969-02-21) February 21, 1969 (age 43) Denver, Colorado, United States
Genres	Blues, delta blues, reggae
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Alligator, Rounder, Telarc
Website	Official website

Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969, Denver, Colorado) is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Virginia. Along with Keb' Mo' and Alvin Youngblood Hart, he raised the flag of acoustic guitar blues in the mid 1990s.^[1] He was featured on the 2003 PBS television mini-series, The Blues, in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese.

Biography[link]

Harris was born and raised near Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with a Bachelors Degree in 1991, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007. Harris received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for language studies in Cameroon in his early twenties, before taking a teaching post in Napoleonville, Louisiana under the Teach For America program.^[1][2] On his debut solo album Between Midnight and Day (1995) he investigated the repertoire of Charlie Patton, Booker White, Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters and Sleepy John Estes.^[1]

In 2002, Harris collaborated with Ali Farka Toure on his album, Mississippi to Mali, fusing blues and Toure's music from northern Mali. In 2003, he contributed to the Northern Blues release, Johnny's Blues: A Tribute To Johnny Cash.

Harris has lived and traveled widely in West Africa, an influence that has permeated much of his work. Harris has toured extensively throughout Europe, Canada, West Africa, Japan and Australia. He is known for his solo acoustic work as well as his electric band, formerly known as the '5 x 5'. His current band is known as the Rasta Blues Experience.

He helped Billy Bragg and Wilco to write the music for "Hoodoo Voodoo" on Mermaid Avenue, an album consisting entirely of songs for which the lyrics were written by the late Woody Guthrie. He also appeared as a musician on the album and its sequel, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II.

In September, 2007 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced that Harris was among 24 people named MacArthur Fellows for 2007. The Fellowship, worth $500,000, is payable over five years.

Discography[link]

Solo[link]

• 1995 Between Midnight and Day (Alligator)
• 1997 Fish Ain't Bitin (Alligator)
• 1999 Greens from the Garden (Alligator)
• 2000 Vu-Du Menz (Alligator)
• 2001 Live at Starr Hill (Njumba)
• 2002 Downhome Sophisticate (Rounder)
• 2003 Mississippi to Mali (Rounder)
• 2005 Daily Bread (Rounder)
• 2007 Zion Crossroads (Telarc)
• 2009 blu.black (Telarc)
• 2011 Father Sun Mother Earth (Njumba)

Contributions To Others[link]

• 2003 Johnny's Blues: A Tribute To Johnny Cash (Northern Blues)^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• CoreyHarrisMusic.com Official website
• Corey Harris at Allmusic
• Speech by Corey Harris at Bates College

Walter Anthony (February 13, 1872 in Stockton, CA – May 1, 1945 in Hollywood, CA) was a screenplay, titles and documentary film writer. Before Walter started writing in films he was a dramatic and musical critic for San Francisco Morning Call.

Selected filmography[link]

• Love and the Devil (1929)
• Golden Dawn (1930)
• Courage (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• General Crack (1930)
• The Man Who Laughs (1928)
• The Last Performance (1927)
• The Cat and the Canary (1927)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• The Lightning Rider (1924)
• Oliver Twist (1922)

External links[link]

• Walter Anthony at the Internet Movie Database
• allmovie.com

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Horace G. Campbell is a noted international peace and justice scholar and Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Born in 1945 (Montego Bay, Jamaica), he has been involved in Africa's Liberation Struggles and in the struggles for peace and justice globally for more than four decades. From his years in Toronto, Canada, to his sojourns in Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom and parts of the Caribbean, he has been an influential force offering alternatives to the hegemonic ideas of Eurocentrism. In an attempt to theorize new concepts of revolution in the 21st century he has been seeking to expand on the ideas of fractals and the importance of emancipatory ideas [1] He currently teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University.

Education and Early Academics[link]

Dr. Campbell was educated in the Caribbean, Canada, Uganda and the United Kingdom. He did his doctoral work at Sussex University in the United Kingdom. The title of his thesis was The Commandist State in Uganda. Since 1979, he has been studying issues of militarism and transformation in Africa. Before teaching at Syracuse University, Horace Campbell taught in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and for six years at the University of Dar Es Salaam. He has been a Visiting Distinguished Professor in South Africa, Ireland and in Uganda.

Contributions to Scholarship[link]

Presently, within Syracuse University, he serves as a mentor for younger scholars and teaches courses on African Politics, African International Relations, Militarism and Transformation in Southern Africa , Introduction to Pan Africanism and The Caribbean Society since Independence, Caribbean Intellectual Thought and Introduction to African American Studies. At Syracuse University, Campbell is a member of the International Relations Faculty in the Maxwell School. He is also one of the principal conveners for the Graduate Seminar on Pan Africanism: Research and Readings. In this course he conducts a major seminar on the issues of peace and reconstruction and the meanings of Pan Africanism today.

He is the Director of the Africa Initiative in the University. The purpose of the initiative is to focus on Africa as an important source of knowledge, highlighting work on the continent by Syracuse University scholars. The scholars represent a variety of disciplines including the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, mathematics, engineering and others. The Africa Initiative has the following areas of research and advocacy: peace and reconstruction, Africa and the information revolution, gender and the environment in the Pan African world, African Orature, African Languages and literatures and Reparations in the Twenty First Century.

Dr. Campbell has published widely. His most important book Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney is going through its sixth edition. His Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation (David Phillip, South Africa and Africa World Press, New Jersey, 2003) lays out a new critique of liberation movements that go sour and fail to transform themselves and their societies. His most recent book is Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st century(New Academia Publishers 2006).

Dr. Campbell has contributed over thirty chapters to other edited books and has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals, and is currently writing a book titled Angola: The Struggle for Reconstruction.

Dr. Campbell writes regularly for the major newspapers in the USA, Southern Africa, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. He has been a commentator on international politics on Pacifica Radio. His commentaries on international issues are widely circulated and his interview for the Blackelectorate.com, on the implications of September 11/2001 for humanity was widely reproduced on web sites in Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. As a commentator on peace and transformation, he is actively involved in the opposition to the establishment of the US Africa Command.

Affiliations and Activism[link]

Dr. Campbell is a member of the African Studies Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He is an active member of the African Association of Political Science and was the guest editor in the first issue of the African Journal of Political Science, where he coordinated the publication on the question of Pan Africanism in the 21st century.

Presently, he serves as the Chairperson of the Walter Rodney Commemoration Committee. This is a committee of activists who seek to extend the work and ideas of Walter Rodney in relation to emancipatory politics.

Dr. Campbell was the first Director of the Syracuse University Study Abroad Program in Harare, Zimbabwe. During this period in Zimbabwe he worked with Youths to grasp the importance of emancipation in the post-independence era. It was his interaction with the youth, especially the radical African Feminists that influenced his book, Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model off Liberation. In the region of Southern Africa, he participated in the debates on regional cooperation and continues to be an active researcher on questions of peace and reconstruction in Africa. In 2007 he was the keynote speaker at the Africa beyond Borders in Durban, South Africa. He delivered the Wolpe lecture at the University of Kwa –Zulu Natal in July 2007. [2]

In the summer of 2001, he conducted research on peace in Central Africa and was based at the Global Pan African Movement in Kampala, Uganda. He gave presentations on Peace and Reconstruction before the Uganda Society in Uganda, the Nairobi Peace Initiative (Nairobi, Kenya) and the Desmond Tutu Peace Center (Cape Town, South Africa). Campbell was a presenter on Globalisation at the NGO Forum of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban South Africa. He served for five years as the Chairperson of the International Caucus of the Black Radical Congress.

Dr. Campbell works in the wider Syracuse Community as an activist for peace. He is an advisory Board member of the Syracuse Peace Council, one of the oldest peace organizations in the USA.

Dr. Campbell is in high demand as an expert commentator on issues relating to contemporary Africa and the world. He is frequently invited to lecture international gatherings around the world and has been interviewed on American, African and other global radio and TV stations on developments in Africa and the Caribbean. He is as reputed in Syracuse University among students as among media persons covering global issues. His ability to provide an alternative viewpoint to the so-called "mainstream" voices on international affairs has attracted a wide following within academia and in communities striving for peace and justice.

Personal life[link]

Dr. Campbell is married to Professor Makini Zaline Roy, who is an educator, Professor of Education at Syracuse University and a community activist.

Publications[link]

Books[link]

• Campbell, H (2010) 'Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics' breaks down revolutionary movements behind president's campaign, Pluto Books^[1]
• Campbell, H (2007) China in Africa: challenging US global hegemony,in Manji, F and Marks, S (eds) African Perspectives on China in Africa, Oxford: Pambazuka Press [3]
• Campbell, H (2006) Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st century', New Academia Publishers
• Campbell, H (2003) Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation, New Jersey: South Africa and Africa World Press
• Campbell, H (1985) Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, Hansib Publications

Articles[link]

• 'Reparations and regrets: Why is the US Senate apologising now?' (2009) Publish in Pambazuka News [4]

• 'Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem and the tasks of Pan-Africanists' (2009) Published in Pambazuka News [5]

• 'Zimbabwe: Where is the Outrage? Mamdani, Mugabe and the African Scholarly Community'(2009) Published in Concerned Africa Scholars [6]

• 'Obama and US Policy Towards Africa'(2009) Published in Toward Freedom [7]

TV Appearances[link]

• Democracy Now! ,"^[2] - MSNBC, 2011
• "Democracy Now" with Chris Hayes - Sudan Referendum: "A Real Turning Point for the People of Africa" - Jan 2011
• "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman - Ivory Coast Showdown: A Discussion on the Political Crisis in West Africa - Jan 2011
• "Democracy Now" with Chris Hayes - Zimbabwe and the Question of Imperialism: A Discussion - 26 June 2008
• "Cross Talk" - Libya deja vu - Russian TV, 5 March 2011

External links[link]

Horace Campbell's Faculty Web Page at the Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University.[8]

Horace Campbell's Faculty Web Page at the Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University.[9]

Horace Campbell's Article That Was Included as a Document at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002.[10]

References[link]