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Helen Kimble

1925 – 2020

Africanist and campaigner

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About Helen Kimble

Lived 1925 – 2020 (aged 94–95). Helen Kimble was a British human rights defender.

Helen Kimble, née Rankin (1925 – 4 December 2019) was an Africanist and campaigner.

Life Helen Rankin was born in Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Thomas Rankin, a Scottish doctor, and Kathleen McClelland. She was educated at Queenswood School. After Girton College, Cambridge, where she graduated in 1945 in economics and literature, she did postgraduate training in adult education at Oxford University, where she was supervised by Thomas Lionel Hodgkin. After a job as an editor at the Bureau of Current Affairs in London, she married the academic David Kimble. He was appointed director of extramural studies at the University College of the Gold Coast, and the couple left for Ghana in 1949.

Works (with David Kimble) Adult education in a changing Africa : a report on the Inter-African Seminar held in the Gold Coast from December 10 to 23, 1954. 1955. Price control in Tanzania. 1968. Effective membership of agricultural co-operatives : report on pilot study in Oxfordshire. 1977. Desperately seeking asylum: the view from Oxford. 1998. (ed.) Migrant labour and colonial rule in Basutoland, 1890-1930 by Judith M. Kimble. 1999.

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Born
1925
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Died
2020
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Education
Queenswood School, Girton College

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Who was Helen Kimble?

Africanist and campaigner

When was Helen Kimble born?

Helen Kimble was born in 1925.

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Helen Kimble died in 2020.

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Helen Kimble was a human rights defender.

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Helen Kimble was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Helen Kimble

· Wikidata: Q87501568

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