'Cecil Rhodes was also a product of the society and ideas which shaped him. It is that society and time we should examine if we really want to understand his importance, rather than focusing on him as an individual.' Read InayaFolarin's full column:
After the statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader and philanthropist, was ripped down and thrown in Bristol harbour last week, Black Lives Matter protesters soon settled on a new target - the controversial effigy of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford. They revive a longstanding debate about whether we should continue to display monuments of this imperialist in a diverse and multi-ethnic Britain.
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