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| WALTER RODNEY 25th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE |
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Walter Rodney at Queen's College
I was told it was an exceptionally bright group and I looked forward
to meeting them. At 15 years these boys had just entered what was termed
,with a pronounced British touch,. the "upper fourth classical"
form. The year was 1957. I had been at Queen's College just 2 years, brimming
with missionary zeal, acquired at the University College of the West Indies,
to awaken young minds to the West Indian heritage.... Walter Rodney: A Biography Walter Rodney was born in Georgetown, Guyana on March 23, 1942. His was
a working class family-his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress.
After attending primary school, he won an open exhibition scholarship
to attend Queens College as one of the early working-class beneficiaries
of concessions made in the field of education by the ruling class in Guyana
to the new nationalism that gripped the country in the early 1950s........ A Political Assesment of Rodney - by Eusi Kwayana This is a political article first and foremost and should not be expected
to provide biographical details where these have no relevance to the main
argument. It is concerned with trying to explain how Walter Rodney's return
to Guyana affected the pack of things at home, affected the working people's
movement for freedom and the patriotic movement for freedom, and led to
the modification of the state and its organs..... Recent interview with Eusi Kwayana Report of 2002 Interfaith Memorial Service for Rodney THE traditional Interfaith Memorial Service for the late
Dr. Walter Rodney, distinguished historian and politician, was held at
the Ursuline Sisters Chapel, Church and Camp Streets, Georgetown on Wednesday.
The service, which had as its theme "Justice and Peace", was
opened with the hymn, "Lord, We Pray for Golden Peace". (Guyana
Chronicle, August 10, 2002)..... We Cannot Give up before we Start - by Malaika Scott "In the midst of national crisis, Guyanese have made some gain. The most dramatic achievement has been the consolidation of racial unity. Africans and Indians are standing side by side in a way that has not been true since 1953. Indeed, we now have a degree of racial unity greater than at any previous time in our history. The WPA has consistently argued that political unity across racial lines was most desirable and possible. The truth of that position is now obvious." "People's Power, No Dictator" Would that I were able to stand before you and truthfully make that declaration
about our people today. Would that I could say that we have gained ten-fold
on the gains we gained more than 20 years ago. Why should I have to stand
before you, and from the dismal landscape that is ours today, look back
and wish for those days? Before you say, she doesn't know what she's talking
about - wish for those days? Does she know what we lived through? - hear
me out. I don't wish for the bread, cheese and gas lines. I don't wish
for the stark terrorism with which most people lived. I don't wish for
the despotism, I don't wish for the war. What I wish for is the fighting
spirit. I wish for the commitment to the struggle. I wish for the will
to get up, even as forces continually beat you down. I wish for the love.
Above all I wish for the solidarity... Remembering Walter (Andaiye) Walter Rodney and I grew up at the same time, more or less in the same
place, in Georgetown. When our generation ? his and mine was growing up,
the city was small, bordered by Lamaha Street in the North, Bent Street
in the South, Water Street in the West, and Vlissengen Road in the East.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that all else that people know
today as Georgetown either did not exist or was country; Kitty was country..... |
