After graduating in 1963, he entered the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies which awarded him a doctorate in African History in 1966 when he was 24 years old. He was an outstanding student, attending the elite Queen’s College high school where he won a scholarship to the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Walter Rodney was born in Georgetown, the capital of then-British Guiana. By combining political economic analysis with archival research, he demonstrated how colonialism resulted in economic inequality and racial ethnic divisions and how neocolonialism continued those damaging effects. His framework was Marxist ideology focused on the working classes he was critical of capitalism because it promoted individualism instead of cooperative communal efforts. He extended his critical analysis to explain how those effects continued to prevent the progress of newly formed neocolonial governments. Walter Rodney was an internationally acclaimed author of six scholarly books and numerous academic articles that documented the devastating effects of slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean. Only 38 years old when he was killed, Dr.
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