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Chinedu Chukwudinma

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Department of International History

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Chinedu is a Visiting Fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa and Guest Teacher in African History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Associate Lecturer in Politics at the University of Hertfordshire.

He is currently working on a monograph on the political thought and activism of the Afro-Guyanese Marxist historian Walter Rodney, based on his DPhil in Historical and Political Geography at the University of Oxford. During his doctoral studies, he wrote A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney (2022), a short introduction to Rodney’s life. He holds a masters in African Studies with specialism in African history and politics from SOAS and a bachelors in History from the University of Geneva.

Chinedu is a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), where he edits the widely read blog ROAPE.net. Combining his interests in Black intellectual thought and African political economy, he co-edited the special issue “Frantz Fanon at 100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation” (December 2025).

Key expertise

Marxism, Socialism, black intellectual thought, class struggle, social movements, African and Caribbean history and political economy.

Chinedu research interest includes the politics of social movements and class struggle in Africa and the African diaspora; the political and intellectual histories of African and Black diasporic leaders and thinkers; the historical relationship between socialism, Marxism and Pan-Africanism, and how these traditions have challenged racial inequality; and African and global political economy.

Books

Zeilig, L., Chukwudinma, C. and Radley, B. (eds) (2024) Voices for African liberation: conversations with the Review of African political economy. Oxford: Ebb.

Chukwudinma, C. (2022) A rebel’s guide to Walter Rodney. London: Bookmarks Publications.

Book Chapter

‘Walter Rodney in Hamburg’ in Aselmeyer, N and Schäfer, C (Eds) (Forthcoming c.2027) Antikolonialismus in Deutschland: Transnationale Solidarität seit den 1970er Jahren. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag.

Articles

Chukwudinma, C. (Submitted in 2026) ‘Towards Socialism from-below: Walter Rodney’s Marxism and Tanzanian Ujamaa’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, (unknown).

Chukwudinma, C. and Jilani, S. (2025) ‘A radical supplement: Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire’, Review of African Political Economy, 52(186).

Chukwudinma, C. and Kallon, B. (2025) ‘The shifting influence of Frantz Fanon on Walter Rodney’s anti-imperialism (1968–1978)’, Review of African Political Economy, 52(186).

Chukwudinma, C., Lee, C.J. and Engels, B. (2025) ‘Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation’, Review of African Political Economy, 52(186).

Blogs and Reviews

Chinedu Chukwudinma (2024b) ‘Liberation by the masses’, Red Pepper. Available at: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/palestine-middle-east/liberation-by-the-masses-walter-rodney-palestin/.

Chukwudinma, C. (2023) ‘Forgotten drafts of Walter Rodney’s third visit to Cuba’, Review of African Political Economy, June. Available at: https://roape.net/2023/06/08/forgotten-drafts-of-walter-rodneys-third-visit-to-cuba/.

Chukwudinma, C. (2019) ‘Revolution and the Global South: A review of Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World’, International Socialism Journal [Preprint], (169).

Chukwudinma, C. (2019) ‘Towards a Full Understanding of Walter Rodney’, Review of African Political Economy. Available at: https://roape.net/2023/11/10/walter-rodney-and-palestinian-liberation/.(Long read)

Fellowships

Visiting Fellow at the Firoze Lalji Institute for Africa