The prophet of self-emancipation

The piece on the life of one of third world's greatest thinkers Walter Rodney is salutary. His work: 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' provides a radical insight to the objective realities of the African predicament. Rodney's contemporaries  who provided relevant views of Africa are worthy of emulation. Their articles in the 'Review of African Political Economy' and other Journals made immense contributions to scholarship. However, these generations of scholars are fast leaving the stage; the problem is: who and where are the new generation of scholars to continue with their perspective? I will challenge Rodney's contemporaries still alive to begin to groom new scholars that will be their heirs. Understandably, structural adjustment policies in Africa have wrecked havoc on African universities and the dependency school, but proponents of the latter would have to do more to keep their ideas alive. Walter Rodney's idea is alive and should be a compulsory reading for all Africans at high school and undergraduate levels.