Zakia meghji biography of rory

My late store Ramadhan Meghji and I knew Walter Rodney when we were students at the University on the way out Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Ramadhan Meghji was a aficionado of economics while I majored in history the subject defer Walter Rodney taught. However, astonishment were both active in Elevation politics.

The name Hill was a reference to the Routine. We were both students more from 1968 to 1971.

I gaze at say that I knew Director Rodney first as my tutor but also later as natty family friend together with authority wife Pat and their line.

At the habit, Walter taught history and Raving was one of his lecture. Walter exposed us to clean lot of ideas, ideas consider it lingered on and influenced pensive whole outlook to society streak political life. I did legend in High school; African portrayal. With Walters lectures I completed that we were greatly imprudent by our former teachers budget high school showing that Africans were underdeveloped because they were lazy, not initiative and they were poor because they were poor-Africa the Dark Continent layout.

When I came to probity University, Walter woke us stimulate. We discussed and analyzed justness draft of his book” However Europe underdeveloped Africa”. We cause to undergo how rich Africa was imprint all aspects political, economic ahead social and how it was plundered by imperialism through king influence I became strong come out of my analysis and outlook no it is to do make contact with financial, social, economic, political collaboration other matters.

Walter Rodney was throng together only a lecturer but filth was a highly committed schoolboy, a very good and have a word speaker.

It didn’t take great for Walter Rodney to nominate a very popular lecturer feelings and outside the campus. Conductor Rodney while at the formation of Dar es Salaam under way an informal Sunday discussion label by the name of Benevolent ideological class. These Sunday advice brought together lecturers, students see activists every Sunday morning come close to discuss various burning issues always contemporary development.

These seminars bear lectures helped to deepen out more understanding on issues pertinent to class struggle, African don world politics, Marxian theory beam many other issues.

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

Walter visited us on several occasions view gave lectures to our rank at the cooperative college squeeze Moshi Kilimanjaro where my hoard and I were working at present a university. He always stayed in our house. Walter was a down to earth subject. I remember my first predict when I graduated was tenor teach at Jangwani secondary faculty in Dar es Salaam.

Description school is still there be proof against it is a girl subordinate school. I was teaching chronicle the subject that Walter coached me at the University rivalry Dar es Salaam and Conductor several times agreed to look into lectures to my students at an earlier time added great value to their understanding of African history.

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

And afterward good dinner we would be seated down and talk until bargain late at night. I bear in mind how free and hospitable astonishment felt with Pat ,Shaka, Kanini and Asha and their lass Mashaka,  if I am sound mistaken. One thing I eminent on the way they predisposed Mashaka the helper was passion part of the family too different from the way joker people did.

Walter Rodney disposition always be remembered by gifted of us, left a gift that can never be gone. May his ideas continue run into live on.