Archive of The Groundings with My Brothers

Walter Rodney’s life and legacy — explored in literature and on screen.

An excerpt from Walter Rodney’s Decolonial Marxism, which exposes the ‘essential and unique’ role of slavery in the economic underdevelopment of a continent.

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Featuring Priya Gopal, Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie and more.

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Joy James uses poet Lucille Clifton's image of “new bones” to reflect on a series of revolutionary anniversaries in 2021 and the nature of political leadership.

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Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.