The Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies, will host the 15thAnnual Walter Rodney Lecture on Thursday, October 10. It will take place at 5pm, in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Humanities and Education.
The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Jermaine McCalpin, who will speak on the topic “How Africa Developed Europe: Walter Rodney and the Moral Burden of Reparations”.
Dr. McCalpin is lecturer in Transitional Justice in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, and Associate Director of the Centre of Caribbean Thought. He has distinguished himself internationally as a leading voice on the issue of reparations for slavery, as well as truth commissions and political accountability.
The Annual Walter Rodney Lecture celebrates the life of world renowned historian, author and activist Dr. Walter Rodney, and marks the anniversary of the “Rodney Riots” of October 16, 1968.
Before his death, Dr. Rodney published the seminal work “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” in 1972; a point of departure for this year’s lecture by Dr. Jermaine McCalpin.
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