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Grahamstown in the news: Oxford University Appoints Nigerian As First Black Rhodes Professor

12 January 2017 By Port Elizabethan

Oxford University Appoints Nigerian As First Black Rhodes Professor: The new Rhodes Professor, formerly a lecturer in political science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, is a visiting professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He has held visiting fellows …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Brilliant Backpacking along the Garden Route: Port Alfred, Bathurst, Grahamstown “Port Alfred is a sleepy little town with magnificent sand dunes, which makes it popular with sand boarders. The frontier town of Bathurst is just a 15-minute drive from Port Alfred on the R67 to Grahamstown …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

‘Endemic corruption’: What one VERY cross judge thinks of the legal profession: Plasket said the cases that ended up in court were “in all likelihood‚ but the tip of the iceberg”. He added: “In Grahamstown‚ a local costs consultant has been so alarmed by the abuses he has come across in the course of his work that he wrote a …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Oxford University Appoints Nigerian Wale Adebanwi As First Black African Rhodes Professor.: The new Rhodes Professor, formerly a lecturer in political science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, is a visiting professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He has held visiting fellows …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

280 million-year-old fossil reveals origins of chimaeroid fishes: The paper was co-authored by Dr Rob Gess, a partner of the South African Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Palaeosciences, who is based at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown. The CoE is hosted at Wits University as part of the Evolutionary Studies Institute.
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

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