This subject was earlier approached in a publication The Walter Rodney Factor in West Indian Literature by Al Creighton and partly carried in ‘Arts on Sunday.’ What is included here, however, is updated, current material which benefits from new research.
He really had nothing to say
under the silence, least of all
about important topics
like poverty and politics,
why, as you’ll note
he never even wrote
a Rodney poem.
(Edward Baugh)
A week ago, June 13, 2013 was the 33rd anniversary of the death of Guyanese historian and political leader Walter Rodney who was killed by a bomb explosion in Georgetown on ‘Black Friday’ (June 13, 1980). This was recently recalled to public attention because of the
