On 2 March 2017, Elleke will participate in the Oxford Union’s Education and Racism Debate, where she will argue for the proposition: This House Believes British Education Perpetuates Racism.

The Union’s event page reads:

From history to literature, our education – whether at school or at university – is profoundly intertwined with narratives of race.  Britain’s education system has been accused of failing to draw attention to the Empire’s atrocities, neglecting BME perspectives, and discounting non-Western contributions to culture and science – issues which Rhodes Must Fall has recently drawn attention to across Oxford.  Is it failing in these ways, and thus perpetuating racism?

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