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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–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’s work toward the self-activity—the occupations and 'wild-cat strikes'—of the
working class, not as one of numerous players in the revolution, but as the central organizing force.
Dr Leo Zeilig 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’s most important political thinkers and activists. He is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.
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Dr Leo Zeilig - academic profile
Link to website of the Review of African Political Economy journal
Link to website of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London
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