Academy of Ideas

Podcast of Ideas: Must Rhodes Fall?


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Claire Fox and Ian Dunt discuss the Rhodes Must Fall movement
In this edition of the Podcast of Ideas, David Bowden talks to
Claire Fox and journalist Ian Dunt about the Rhodes Must Fall movement,
which has swept campuses from Cape Town to Oxford demanding that
vestiges of colonialism be removed from colleges, notably statues of
Cecil Rhodes.
Does the movement represent young people boldly trying to shape the
world around them? Or, is it a misguided attempt by privileged students
to rewrite the past by shutting down debate and making anachronistic
claims to be victims of historical wrongs?
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