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Walter Rodney’s radical thought and activism led to his eventual killing by a bomb in Guyana, in 1980.

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Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Items, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Science fiction offers readers a way to rethink social dilemmas.

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