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Remembering Walter Rodney

An interview with Issa Shivji Transcribed and Edited by Clairmont Chung  Republished from Monthly Review Magazine  ( Volume 64, Issue 07 (December 2012) ) Issa G. Shivji  is the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Chair at the University of Dar Es Salaam, and hosts the annual Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Intellectual Festival. This essay is adapted from the new Monthly Review Press book, Walter A. Rodney: A Promise of Revolution , edited by Clairmont Chung. The book is comprised of oral histories by academics, writers, artists, and political activists who knew the great writer and revolutionary, Walter Rodney, intimately or felt his influence. I grew up in the eastern region of Tanzania, where I did my primary school. All my secondary school I did in Dar es Salaam—actually, living in this very apartment. So I grew up here. Then in 1966 I completed my high school, and in 1967 I joined the university. At that time it was the University College, Dar es Salaam, because it was part of th