The shifting influence of Frantz Fanon on Walter Rodney’s anti-imperialism ROAPE (opens in new tab)

To mark the 84th anniversary of the birth of Afro-Guyanese Marxist historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney (23 March 1942), we share an article from ROAPE’s special issue 186 on Frantz Fanon that examines the shifting imprint of The Wretched of the Earth on Rodney’s evolving anti-imperialist politics. Drawing on material from the Walter Rodney Papers and beyond, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Baindu Kallon argue that Rodney’s changing engagement with Fanon reveals key patterns and nuances about hi...