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Ntokozo Qwabe (born 1991) is a South African Rhodes Scholar who was one of the founders of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford University.His subsequent comments following the 2015 Paris attacks and behaviour towards a white waitress in South Africa were criticised in news and social media, leading to a petition for his removal from Oxford which was rejected by the university.
Vernie Merze Tate (February 6, 1905 – June 27, 1996) was a professor, scholar and expert on United States diplomacy.She was the first African-American graduate of Western Michigan Teachers College, first African-American woman to attend the University of Oxford, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University (then Radcliffe ...
The Rhodes Scholarship has faced controversies since its inception, primarily concerning the exclusion of women and Black Africans. Initially, the scholarship was limited to male students with Commonwealth of Nations , Germany, and the United States, a restriction that only changed in 1977 following the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act.
Editor, The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Co-authored with Larry Gara and C. Peter Ripley, Underground Railroad: An Epic in United States History (Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of the ...
The scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarships worldwide for higher education at the University of Oxford. Trust awards around thirty-five scholarships each year for high calibre graduates [ 4 ] and early career professionals from developing and emerging economies to study at the University Oxford.
Between 1920 and 1948, he held the Beit Professorship of Colonial History at the University of Oxford. [ 1 ] Coupland is known for his scholarship on African history , as a member of the 1923–1924 Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India, and as an influential member of the 1936–1937 Peel Commission , a royal commission on ...
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly-expanding research library, and has grown to be one of the leading academic research resources in the world. Oxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to scholarly works from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law, providing quick and easy ...
Oloori Kofoworola "Kofo" Aina Ademola, Lady Ademola MBE, MFR, OFR (née Moore; 21 May 1913 – 15 May 2002) was a Nigerian educationist [2] A writer and advocate for women education and also the president [3] of the National Council of Women's Societies in Nigeria and was the head of the women's organization from 1958 to 1964. [4]