October 16, 1968

Prime Minister Hon. Hugh Shearer said that the Govern-ment will neither change nor withdraw the order against Dr. Walter Rodney, the University of the West Indies' lecturer in African History, who was refused permission to re-enter Jamaica on Tuesday as an undesirable person.

Then

The refusal to allow Guya-nese pan-africanist Dr. Walter Rodney, accused of "des-tructive anti-Jamaican activ-ities" by speaking up for the poor and the marginalised Rastafarian sect, set off a series of protests and riots around the Caribbean.

Now

Twenty-seven years after his death by a car bomb, Rodney's legacy lives on in his work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. An annual Walter Rodney Symposium is held in his honour every March at the Atlanta University Centre.