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Reviewed by: Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution by Clairmont Chung Michael O. West Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution Edited by Clairmont Chung. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012. Walter Rodney was born in 1942 in colonial Guyana (then called British Guiana) and died in 1980 in postcolonial Guyana, almost certainly assassinated by the government of Guyana. In a short thirty-eight years, Rodney lived an amazing life, becoming at once a renowned scholar and a brave political activist. After finishing high school in Guyana, Rodney attended the Jamaica campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI). He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He then taught briefly at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, before returning to UWI as a lecturer. His second Jamaican sojourn was short, much shorter than anticipated. By now, 1968, the Black Power movement, like the revolution of 1968
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Reviewed by: Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution by Clairmont Chung Michael O. West Walter A. Rodney: A promise of revolution Edited by Clairmont Chung. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012. Walter Rodney was born in 1942 in colonial Guyana (then called British Guiana) and died in 1980 in postcolonial Guyana, almost certainly assassinated by the government of Guyana. In a short thirty-eight years, Rodney lived an amazing life, becoming at once a renowned scholar and a brave political activist. After finishing high school in Guyana, Rodney attended the Jamaica campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI). He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He then taught briefly at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, before returning to UWI as a lecturer. His second Jamaican sojourn was short, much shorter than anticipated. By now, 1968, the Black Power movement, like the revolution of 1968
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