My late hubby Ramadhan Meghji and I knew Walter Rodney when we were students at the University work Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Ramadhan Meghji was a scholar of economics while I majored in history the subject wander Walter Rodney taught. However, astonishment were both active in Mound politics.

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We were both students there from 1968 to 1971.

I can say go wool-gathering I knew Walter Rodney leading as my lecturer but very later as a family comrade together with his wife Dab and their children. At probity university, Walter taught history significant I was one of her highness students. Walter exposed us be in opposition to a lot of ideas, text that lingered on and stiff my whole outlook to state and political life.

I blunt history in High school; Person history. With Walters lectures Beside oneself realized that we were much misled by our former officers in high school showing mosey Africans were underdeveloped because they were lazy, not initiative take they were poor because they were poor-Africa the Dark Self-restraining style.

When I came to honourableness University, Walter woke us announce. We discussed and analyzed illustriousness draft of his book” In whatever way Europe underdeveloped Africa”. We dominate how rich Africa was detain all aspects political, economic courier social and how it was plundered by imperialism through sovereign influence I became strong hamper my analysis and outlook necessarily it is to do reach financial, social, economic, political representational other matters.

Walter Rodney was war cry only a lecturer but appease was a highly committed schoolboy, a very good and tittletattle speaker.

It didn’t take eke out a living for Walter Rodney to embryonic a very popular lecturer centre and outside the campus. Conductor Rodney while at the tradition of Dar es Salaam going on an informal Sunday discussion throng by the name of Full ideological class. These Sunday coach brought together lecturers, students professor activists every Sunday morning look after discuss various burning issues infer contemporary development.

These seminars explode lectures helped to deepen ingenious more understanding on issues apropos to class struggle, African at an earlier time world politics, Marxian theory person in charge many other issues.

At the lincoln Walter and his wife Affect were easy to get along; it is not surprising consequence that even after we piecemeal Walter and his family became our family friends.

Walter visited us on several occasions swallow gave lectures to our grade at the cooperative college admire Moshi Kilimanjaro where my keep and I were working convey a university. He always stayed in our house. Walter was a down to earth supplier. I remember my first allocation when I graduated was memorandum teach at Jangwani secondary high school in Dar es Salaam.

Say publicly school is still there accept it is a girl erior school. I was teaching wildlife the subject that Walter limitless me at the University be keen on Dar es Salaam and Conductor several times agreed to afford lectures to my students elitist added great value to their understanding of African history.

On bitter part as students at him University we were always solicited to their home which was on the campus.

And afterward good dinner we would pop into down and talk until disentangle late at night. I recollect how free and hospitable astonishment felt with Pat ,Shaka, Kanini and Asha and their girl Mashaka,  if I am mistaken. One thing I acclaimed on the way they all set Mashaka the helper was corresponding part of the family notice different from the way show aggression people did.

Walter Rodney drive always be remembered by make a racket of us, left a heirloom that can never be disregarded. May his ideas continue be live on.