Join us for the inaugural event of the SOAS Walter Rodney Collective, a new research cluster named in honour of the influential SOAS alumnus and pan-African, Marxist scholar-activist. The collective is hosted by the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS, University of London.
Marking the 50th anniversary of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), this event will feature scholars of racial capitalism, Dr Madalitso Zililo Phiri (University of Johannesburg), as part of a roundtable discussion with SOAS faculty and students. What is this book’s legacy and the lessons it continues to offer for historical research today? What is the significance of this text for thinking through SOAS’s own colonial legacy–and its radical potential?
This event is open to all but registration is required.