What is Walter Rodney?
{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Dr. | name = Walter Rodney | birth_name = Walter Anthony Rodney | birth_date = {{birth date|1942|03|23|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Georgetown, British Guiana]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|06|13|1942|03|23|df=y}} | death_place = Georgetown, [[Guyana]] | alma_mater = [[University of the West Indies]] [[SOAS, University of London|School of Oriental and African Studies]] | awards = }} '''Walter Anthony Rodney''' (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a well-known [[Guyana|Guyanese]] [[historian]], [[political activist]] and academic. He was [[assassinated]] in 1980.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=West|first=Michael|date=November 2005|title=Walter Rodney and Black Power: Jamaican Intelligence and US Diplomacy|url=https://www.umes.edu/cms300uploadedFiles/AJCJS/VOL1.2.WEST%20FINAL.pdf|journal=African Journal of Criminology & Justice Studies|volume=1|pages=|via=|access-date=2019-04-28|archive-date=2016-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320142446/https://umes.edu/cms300uploadedfiles/ajcjs/vol1.2.west%20final.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodney, Walter}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:1980 deaths]] [[Category:People from Georgetown, Guyana]] [[Category:Historians]] [[Category:Political activists]] [[Category:Academics]] [[Category:Assassinated people]] [[Category:University of the West Indies alumni]] [[Category:Guyanese writers]] {{bio-stub}}