The Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, in association with the Marcus Garvey Movement, will host the 8th Annual Walter Rodney Memorial lecture on Thursday October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at the Undercroft of the Senate Building. The lecture is entitled “Bridging The Ethical Gap In Politics: Implications Of Walter Rodney’s Intellectual Heritage For Africana Leadership,” and will be delivered by Dr. Ayotunde Bewaji, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy.
The annual lecture marks the anniversary of the “Rodney Riots” of October 16, 1968 and celebrates the academic and activist legacy of Walter Rodney, a Guyanese, who graduated from the UWI, Mona campus, in History. He later lectured there and was banned from Jamaica in October 1968 - an exclusion that led to student protest marches and more generalised demonstrations in Kingston. Walter Rodney published a book on his Jamaican experience entitled ‘The Groundings with my Brothers,’ in which he shows himself to be a pioneering public intellectual.
The public is invited to attend. For further information please contact: Lorna Smith, Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit, UWI, Mona, at 977-1951; 512-3228 or fax: 977-3430 or send an e-mail: icsmona@uwimona.edu.jm