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…
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”
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
Mwalimu,without prejudice to your core argument,I beg to differ about the claim that is all that you learn cf.the history of the teaching of history at the University of Dar es Salaam and its influence on the teaching of history in schools in #Tanzania,re:nzdl.org/cgi-bin/librar…
@bwaya huu mjadala unaoendelea kwenye majibu ya hii twiti unafanana na ule wa akina @ItsKamala na panzi.Hili somo la jiografia ya dunia hufundishwa duniani kote.Ndiyo maana Wachina na wengineo wanatujua pengine kuliko tunavyojijua.Ila naona watu wanakandia uwanda mpana🗺🌍🌎🌏🌐.
Kama ulimaliza vitabu vyote vya Tujifunze Lugha Yote ina maana utakuwa umejua habari za takribani mikoa yote ya Tanzania—hapo ukiunganisha na somo la Kilimo na Jiografia(ya Dunia) basi mtoto/mwanafunzi unakuwa na uwanda mpana wa kuelewa nini kinaendelea ndani na nje ya nchi yako.
Since the deaths of global figures—especially those whose legacies divide opinions—tend to make us revisit history,in this thread I am posting links to videos from the main Imperial source of the British Empire taken in real time in the 1950s in its then beloved colony in Africa.