1/This is partly why it’s so important to read Karim F.Hirji’s book on Walter Rodney’s book ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa(#HEUA)’if one truly wants to understand the historical/political and ideological/intellectual context upon which Rodney wrote HEUA awaazmagazine.com/volume-18/issu…
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3/“His innovative application of the method of political economy transformed the paradigm for rendition of the continent’s past.Because it stridently took the traditional historians+the prevailing neocolonial order to task,it was also pilloried by the defenders of the status quo”
4/“My diary says that I first met Walter Rodney on July 10, 1969 at the University of Dar es Salaam.
He had just given a lecture on The Cuban Revolution and its Relevance to Africa to a packed audience of students and staff”
— Karim F. Hirji walterrodneyfoundation.org/greetings-and-…
7/ Karim Hirji’s book on Walter Rodney’s book,I reiterate,is a must-read for any scholar/student of African history+the history of global capitalism—I truly wish it becomes a core text in all foundational course on political economy+economic history! #EconTwitter #Twitterstorians
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