Historian and intellectual Walter Rodney is most widely regarded for his book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" (1972). Travelling and teaching widely, he was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and a supporter of the downtrodden. Rodney returned to Guyana in 1974 and was active in the opposition movement, leading to his assassination in 1980. Walter was involved with the New World Group, which was a collection of Guyanese academics notable for producing the "New World Quarterly", a journal published from 1963-1972. "New World Quarterly" was an outlet for academics within the Caribbean to examine development, socialism, and other regional issues, but also the "original publication of poems, reviews and commentaries".