Guyanese Pan Africanist historian, anti-imperialist, Marxist, socialist activist and intellectual Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980. Walter Anthony Rodney was born on March 23, 1942, in Georgetown, British Guiana. He earned a first-class honours degree in history at the University College of the West Indies and completed his PhD in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, by age 24. Rodney taught at the University of Dar es Salaam i