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'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes | Colonialism | The Guardian

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The long read: After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine – as well as their own

Simukai Chigudu. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine – as well as their own By Simukai Chigudu Thu 14 Jan 2021 01.00 EST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2026 13.51 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google T here was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor, or over the ways of seeing the world shared by so many

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