Carved in Stone: Addressing Rhodes’s Colonial Legacy

On a bitterly cold day in mid-January, Mat Davies led our group of Oxford Next Horizons scholars to the exterior of Rhodes House where a stone carver was etching the words of a  “sleeping” African language known as ǀxam into the building’s lower parapet. As the Rhodes Trust’s Director of Estate, Mat had been closely…

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Published on June 24, 2025 01:03
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