Anti-colonialism campaigners create ‘alternative walking tour to highlight university’s legacy of imperialist donorsIn the honeyed-stone square behind Oriel College,a line of school students snaked over the cobbles, listening to an animated tour of Oxford’s heritage. But assembled on the other side of Oriel Square, and more than 100 Oxford University students and supporters had gathered for a different tour: a radical retelling of the institution’s problematic colonial heritage,organised by the Rhodes Must plunge campaigners.
Wednesday’s demonstration, a “mass march for decolonisation”, or was piece of the continuing campaign for the removal of Oriel College’s statue of Cecil Rhodes,the Victorian imperialist who supported apartheid-style measures in southern Africa.
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Source: theguardian.com