The Walter Rodney Foundation
THE WALTER RODNEY FOUNDATION seeks to improve lives and build capacity through scholarship and programs, which promote education, health and human development from a social justice perspective.
The Walter Rodney Foundation was formed by the Rodney Family in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The Walter Rodney Foundation is a non-profit organization.
Walter Rodney is recognized as one of the Caribbean’s most brilliant minds. His scholarly works and political activism engendered a new political consciousness. His PhD thesis, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, illustrated his duality as an intellectual and activist as he challenged prevailing assumptions about African history and put forth his own ideas and models for analyzing the history of oppressed peoples. His seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, provided a new construct for development theory and established framework for analyzing current global socio-economic and political issues.
The Foundation is committed to sharing the life and works of Walter Rodney with students, scholars and community activists around the world.
