
Rodney's immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysisin the period he lived.
Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africa's most important political thinkers and activists. Leo is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy--the radical African-studies journal founded by activists and scholars in 1974--and a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Zeilig is not stretching when he calls Rodney, 'A revolutionary for our time.'" -New York Times
"Zeilig has done a remarkable job in researching and organizing the text into one detailed book that provides the greatest insight into the life and work of Walter Rodney from primary sources...Zeilig writes: 'What we see in the Archive -- and what I have tried to capture in this book - is Rodney's exhaustive historical work and scholarship.' He has been very successful in doing just that. This book is a very interesting and informative read." --Review of African Political Economy