Ep. 10: Big People Tings: Walter Rodney

"Big People Tings" is a new continuing series where we highlight an individual Caribbean changemaker and discuss their contributions to our history and future. For our first episode of the series, we discuss Guyanese-born public intellectual and Pan-Africanist Dr. Walter Rodney (1942-1980) who played an integral role in the Black Power movement in the Caribbean and helped found the Working People's Alliance, a Guyanese political party for working class' rights, in the 1970s.

Strictly Facts Reads

• “The Groundings With My Brothers” by Walter Rodney

• “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney

Strictly Facts Sounds

• Kamau Brathwaite- “A Poem for Walter Rodney”

• Linton Kwesi Johnson- “Reggae fi Radni” 

• Carl Dawkins- “Dr. Rodney”

• Louie Lepkie- “Walter Rodney!”

• Corey Harris- “Walter Rodney”

• Chronixx- “Black is Beautiful” 

• Protoje- “8 Year Affair” 

• Protoje- “Flames” ft. Chronixx