Walter Rodney and reversing the course of Guyana’s tragedy

By Cary Fraser

(Cary Fraser teaches race in American history and Caribbean history at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review.)

Horatio: He waxes desperate with imagination.
Marcellus: Let’s follow. ‘Tis not fit thus to obey him.
Horatio: Have after. To what issue will this come?
Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Horatio: Heaven will direct it.
Marcellus: Nay, let’s follow him. [Exeunt.]

Hamlet Act 1, scene 4, 87–91 ( by William Shakespeare)