Fall of Bristol's Colston statue revives Rhodes campaign in Oxford
by Aamna Mohdin from on (#54EPB)
Rhodes Must Fall rally planned at Oriel College four years after officials said statue would stay
The dramatic toppling of a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston at a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol has reignited the campaign to remove a statue of the Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University.
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign has called for a demonstration on Tuesday outside Oriel College, where a likeness of the controversial 19th-century figure - who supported apartheid-style measures in southern Africa - is mounted on the wall.
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