On June 11, 1971, Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney was denied entry into Jamaica by the government, sparking student protests across the island. Rodney, who had previously taught at the University of the West Indies, was known for his influential work How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. His ban was seen as politically motivated, as his Pan-Africanist views and critiques of capitalism threatened the Jamaican establishment. The backlash underscored Rodney’s influence on Caribbean radical thought and the rising tensions between state institutions and Black intellectual movements advocating for economic and racial justice across the region.
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