« Walter Rodney » est un documentaire sur la vie du Dr. Walter Rodney, historien, activiste et défenseur des droits civiques. À travers des interviews et des séquences filmées dans plusieurs pays, il dresse le portrait d’un homme engagé pour l’unité et la justice sociale. Son héritage continue d’influencer les mouvements contemporains pour l’égalité.



Réalisé par Arlen Harris et Daniyal Harris-Vajda
Genre : Documentaire
Année : 2023
Durée : 72′

Walter Rodney: What they don’t Want you to Know, is an original circa 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today.

It reveals that Guyanese historian Dr Walter Rodney was under British security surveillance from the age of 19, after visiting Russia and Cuba while a student at UWI in Jamaica. He was seen as subversive both as an academic and as an activist who supported anti-colonial movements and civil rights. Rodney was assassinated in 1980 by the Guyanese regime put in power and supported by the British and Americans.

By the time of his death, he was under surveillance by at least five different nations. Shockingly, a British secret propaganda unit paid for a negative review of his major work.

It was only in 2021 that the Guyanese government accepted responsibility for the assassination.



Documentary by Arlen Harris et Daniyal Harris-Vajda