The Walter Rodney Foundation is a non-profit organization working to advance education, health and development by promoting human rights, social justice and sustainable development.

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 501(c)(3) 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. 

Principal Objectives

• Contribute to a more equitable society
• Promote and facilitate literacy and education
• Promote and facilitate health and development initiatives
• Promote and facilitate civic involvement and leadership skills;
• Provide resources for the marginalized, especially women and youth
• Promote scholarly use of the Walter Rodney Papers housed at the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center
• Consolidate the intellectual property of Dr. Walter Rodney
• Promote his legacy by holding seminars, conferences and symposia in schools, colleges and universities and communities

Since 2004, an annual symposium has been held in Atlanta, Georgia.  The goal is to bring together scholars, researchers, activists, students and the community to discuss contemporary issues from a Rodney perspective. 

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The tenth annual walter r0dney symposium will be held on 22 & 23 march 2013 

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Join us at the Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, GA.

THE WORKING THEME IS:

WALTER RODNEY: A LITERARY ASSESSMENT AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

The annual event is free and open to the public.

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the NINTH Annual Walter Rodney Symposium!

The Ninth Annual Walter Rodney Symposium was held on Friday, 23 March 2012 from 4 - 8 pm at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The  theme was People's Power: Resistance, Occupation, Uprising.

The event was free and open to the public.



KEYNOTE:

Lewis R. Gordon, Professor, Africana Philosophy.

COMMUNITY PANEL:

Firoze Manji, Kenyan human rights activist, Editor-in-Chief of Pambazuka Press;

Akinyele Umoja, scholar-activist; Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University

Bocafloja, international Hip Hop Artist and founder of the Quilombo Collective

Jim Bacote, Gullah-Geechee community-leader, educator and founder of Geechee Kunda.

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