By Baindu Kallon, Chinedu Chukwudinma
#AntiImperialism #Marxism #FrantzFanon #WalterRodney
https://roape.net/2026/03/23/the-shifting-influence-of-frantz-fanon-on-walter-rodneys-anti-imperialism/

The shifting influence of Frantz Fanon on Walter Rodney’s anti-imperialism ROAPE |
To mark the 84th anniversary of the birth of Afro-Guyanese Marxist historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney (23 March 1942), we share an article from ROAPE’s special issue 186 on Frantz Fanon that examines the shifting imprint of The Wretched of the Earth on Rodney’s evolving anti-imperialist politics. Drawing on material from the Walter Rodney Papers and beyond, Chinedu Chukwudinma and Baindu Kallon argue that Rodney’s changing engagement with Fanon reveals key patterns and nuances about his political development on questions of class as the strategy and tactics of liberation. They contend that while Rodney initially embraced Fanon’s ideas, he gradually refined, challenged and at times rejected them as he grappled with the failed promises of post-independence Jamaica and Tanzania.









