Decolonization Requires a New Economics
By Sam Klug On October 15, 1968, the government of Jamaica banned a 26-year-old history professor from reentering the island nation. Walter Rodney, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, was returning from the Black Writers’ Congress in Montreal. While abroad, he had spoken out against the Jamaican government’s economic policies, police brutality against black Jamaicans, and exclusion of US Black Power leaders. What was dangerous about Rodney was not only his challenge to the Jamaican government but also that he represented, both within Jamaica and around…
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