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Walter Rodney

1942 - 1980

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Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Rodney has received more than 768,690 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Walter Rodney is the 507th most popular historian (down from 435th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Guyana (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Guyanese Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Walter Rodney ranks 507 out of 561. Before him are Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Horace Engdahl, Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa, Robert Service, Rainer Zitelmann, and Robert Kagan. After him are Carroll Quigley, A. H. M. Jones, Mary Beard, Vasily Struve, Lawrence Stone, and Mark Mazower.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Walter Rodney ranks 601. Before him are David Lange, Rolando García, Dan Haggerty, Allen Daviau, Liu Qi, and Gideon Toury. After him are Lopo do Nascimento, Gabriel Núñez, Bob Foster, Zoltán Nemere, Harald Norpoth, and Glyn Johns. Among people deceased in 1980, Walter Rodney ranks 267. Before him are Mustapha Choukri, Ilie Subășeanu, Walter Kaufmann, David Marr, Domingo Acedo, and Dick Haymes. After him are William Hood Simpson, Ahmet Berman, Bette Nesmith Graham, Dorothy Stratten, Nelson López, and Zakaria Chihab.

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In Guyana

Among people born in Guyana, Walter Rodney ranks 15 out of 24. Before him are Neil Ritchie (1897), Forbes Burnham (1923), Irfaan Ali (1980), Moses Nagamootoo (1947), Mark Phillips (1961), and Bharrat Jagdeo (1964). After him are Hamilton Green (1934), Letitia Wright (1993), Andrew Watson (1856), Chris Brasher (1928), Mark McKoy (1961), and Jack London (1905).

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Among HISTORIANS In Guyana

Among historians born in Guyana, Walter Rodney ranks 1. 

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