The Walter Rodney Riots

On October 15th of 1968, the University of the West Indies lecturer, Dr. Walter Rodney, was banned from entering Jamaica. When students at UWI learned that their lecturer was barred from re-entry in the country and stranded on an airplane, a protest organised by the UWI Guild of Students took place. The protest, the largest student organised protest in Caribbean history, would erupt into unrest which would become known as the Rodney Riots of 1968 and, subsequently created a series of events across the region.

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

  • A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 by Walter Rodney

  • A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800 by Walter Rodney

  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

  • Guyanese Sugar Plantations in the Late Nineteenth Century by Walter Rodney

  • Mirror, Mirror: Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica by Rex Nettleford

  • Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness by David Austin

  • Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972 by Obika Gray

  • Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney by Horace Campbell

  • A Revolutionary for our Time: The Walter Rodney Story by Leo Zeilig

  • The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney

  • Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70: Internal Security in a Developing Country by Terry Lacey

  • West Africa and the Atlantic Slave-Trade by Walter Rodney

  • Walter Rodney Intellectual and Political Thought by Rupert Lewis

  • Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual  by Walter Rodney

  • World War II and the Tanzanian Economy by Walter Rodney

ACADEMIC PAPERS

  • Walter Rodney – 1968 Revisited by Rupert Lewis

  • Walter Rodney: A Biography by Horace Campbell

  • Walter Rodney and Black Power: Jamaican Intelligence and US Diplomacy by Michael O. West

  • The Coloniality of Power and the Limits of Dissent in Jamaica by Obika Gray

  • The Rodney Affair and Its Aftermath by Ralph Gonsalves

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