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
ARTICLES
Africa Is A Country: Groundings with Walter Rodney
Africa Is A Country: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism
Africa Is A Country: The Dar es Salaam Years
Africa Is A Country: The Young Walter Rodney
Africa Is A Country: Walter Rodney Was Way Ahead of His Time
Tenement Yaad Media: Revolutionary for Our Time - The Walter Rodney Story
FILMS
The Past Is Not Our Future – Walter Rodney’s Student Years (2018), directed by Dr. Matthew J. Smith
Disturbance 1968, (2020), directed by Dr. Matthew J. Smith