A new plaque has been unveiled at a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, noting his exploitation of others and how his actions caused "great loss of life," after demands that the monument be taken down.
Simukai Chigudu is associate professor of African politics at the University of Oxford
‘Rhodes’s imperial philosophy was unabashedly supremacist, and he detested Africans.’ Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters
‘Rhodes’s imperial philosophy was unabashedly supremacist, and he detested Africans.’ Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters
Mon 24 May 2021 10.48 EDT
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nger is a potent, if volatile, political force. It can be channelled toward many ends. It’s often dismissed as counterproductive, but Audre Lorde, the African American writer and civil rights activist, reminds us that anger can be a powerful source of energy. It can serve progress and change, it can be liberating and clarifying.