In his critique of colonialism in Africa, the Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney states:

Historian Walter Rodney estimates that by c. 1770, the King of Dahomey earned around £ 250, 000 per year by selling captive Africans to the European slave traders.

According to the Marxist historian, Walter Rodney, imperialism meant capitalist expansion.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney describes mercantilism as the period of the world-wide development of European commerce, which began in the fifteenth century with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, Asia and the New World.

* 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

In his classic, " How Europe Underdeveloped Africa " Walter Rodney says that Africa ` s development can only be possible through its delinking with international capitalism and embracing a socialist template.

Historian Walter Rodney has searched the reports of the early Portuguese travelers to the area and found mention in them of only one, quite particular, kind of slavery among the Africans.

* Walter Rodney, " A Reconsideration of the Mane Invasions of Sierra Leone ".

* March 23 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure

** Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, provoked by the banning of Walter Rodney from the country.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney ( 1972 ) has argued that it was an unequal relationship, with Africans being forced into a " colonial " trade with the more economically developed Europeans, exchanging raw materials and human resources ( i. e. slaves ) for manufactured goods.

* Dr. Walter Rodney, world-renowned historian of Africa, was born in Georgetown, Guyana.

One of the party's leaders, Walter Rodney, and several professors at the University of Guyana were arrested on arson charges.

Several notable historians and economists such as Eric Williams, Walter Rodney and Karl Marx contend that the global capitalist economy was largely founded on the creation and produce of thousands of slave labour camps based in colonial plantations exploiting tens of millions of abducted Africans.

* Rodney, Walter, How Europe underdeveloped Africa, Howard University Press.

The prince of Wales visited him especially often, and many of his finest portraits are in the state apartments at St. James's Palace, the best perhaps being those of the prince, the duke and duchess of York, of Lord Rodney and of Lord Nelson, Among his other sitters were Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington, Frere and Sir George Beaumont.

Walter Rodney ( March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980 ) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.

Rodney's death was commemorated in a poem by Martin Carter entitled " For Walter Rodney " and by the dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson in " Reggae fi Radni ".

In 1984, the Centre for Caribbean Studies of the University of Warwick established the Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture in recognition of the life and work of one of the most outstanding scholar-activists of the Black Diaspora in the post World War II era.

In 1993, the Guyanese government posthumously awarded Walter Rodney Guyana's highest honour, the Order of Excellence of Guyana.

The Guyanese government also established a Walter Rodney Chair in History at the University of Guyana.

In 2004, Walter Rodney ` s widow, Patricia, and his children donated his papers to the Robert L. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center.

The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

* 1912 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician ( d. 2003 )

* 13-Kenneth Walter, 63, South African cricketer.

Roosevelt appointed numerous African Americans to federal office, such as Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, a leader of the Black and Tan Republican faction whom he named register of the federal land office.

According to the Louisiana Historical Association, he named some African Americans to federal positions, such as Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, whom he named comptroller of customs.

** Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist ( d. 2003 )

Located just from Washington, D. C., in 1925, developer Walter L. Bean purchased land adjoining Trueman Point with the vision of creating a resort community for middle class African Americans from the area.

* Walter G. Alexander ( 1880 – 1953 ), first African American member of the New Jersey Legislature.

* Myers, Walter Dean, At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, ISBN 0-590-48669-1 ( some information for this article was derived from the editorial reviews of this book as listed here: ) Category: 1802 births Category: 1880 deaths Category: African royalty

When brought up on VH1's I Love the ' 90s, the original cast members interviewed ( Amy Jo Johnson, Walter Emanuel Jones ) as well as other celebrity commentators, made fun of how the original line-up had Jones ' role as the Black Ranger and Thuy Trang's role as the Yellow Ranger because the actors and characters were of African and Asian descent, respectively.

Phillips also painted portraits of Walter Scott, Robert Southey, George Anthony Legh Keck ( 1830 ), Thomas Campbell ( poet ), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Hallam, Mary Somerville, Sir Edward Parry, Sir John Franklin, Dixon Denham, the African traveller, and Hugh Clapperton.

Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu ( 18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003 ) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress ( ANC ).

Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu ( 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011 ) was a black South African anti – apartheid activist, and the widow of fellow activist Walter Sisulu ( 1912 – 2003 ).

Albertina did not display an interest in politics at first, only attending political meetings with Walter in a supporting capacity, but she eventually got involved in politics when she joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) Women ′ s League in 1955, and took part in the launch of the Freedom Charter the same year.

This region is the birthplace of many prominent South African politicians, such as Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki, Steve Biko and Charles Coghlan.

Walter Fauntroy ( D-DC ), as the official African American National Hymn.

* Walter Rodney Speaks: the Making of an African Intellectual ( 1990 )

* 2002 – Molefi Kete Asante listed Walter Francis White on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

*" Walter Francis White ", African American World, PBS.

After Virginia passed stringent segregation laws in the early 20th century and ultimately the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 which mandated every person who had any African heritage be deemed black, Walter Plecker, the head of Vital Statistics office, directed all state and local registration offices to use only the terms " white " or " colored " to denote race on official documents and thereby eliminated all traceable records of Virginia Indians.

* Berger, Roger A., "‘ The Black Dick ’: Race, Sexuality, and Discourse in the L. A. Novels of Walter Mosley ", in African American Review 31 ( Summer 1997 ): 281 – 94.