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This years Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies will take place on Thursday 22 May in the Harris Lecture Theatre from 5.30pm. Our speaker will be award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester, Gary Younge. Gary will be speaking on “”The man who photobombed De Gaulle” for more information about him, please see below.
After the talk there will be drinks, from 6.30pm, and a chance to speak to our speaker further.
The lecture, named in honour of former Honorary Fellow and Orielensis Professor Rex Nettleford, former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, is intended to contribute to the advancement of academic research into the legacies of colonialism in all its forms.