Article 54EPB Fall of Bristol's Colston statue revives Rhodes campaign in Oxford

Fall of Bristol's Colston statue revives Rhodes campaign in Oxford

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Aamna Mohdin
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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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