Christ's College
Dr Davidson Nicol Davidson was born in 1924 in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. His family belonged to the Creole minority who were an »
Churchill College
Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele was born on 4 July 1948 in Johannesburg to Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele and Makhosazana Regina Tshabangu. Ndebele completed his matric at St Christopher’ »
Queens' College
Dr Thomas Risley Odhiambo The Late Dr Thomas Risley Odhiambo (1959) (born.Fev 4, 1931- died May 26, 2003) Thomas odhiambo was a prominent Kenyan scientist »
Corpus Christi
Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi a Black British novelist and playwright. She studied social and political sciences at Corpus Christi College in 2004. Helen was included in the »
The Pioneering Black Cantabs before 1900.
According to the Victoria and Albert museum, Francis Williams (1700-1772)was the son of wealthy freed slaves from Jamaica who attended Cambridge University in 1758. However, »
Earliest Black Women at Cambridge
This blog presents short biographies of the six earliest black women we have researched so far, who attended the three women's colleges during the late 1940s »
Black Cantabs between 1900-1930
The early 1900s saw an increased number of black cantabs from West Africa and the Caribbean join the University of Cambridge. Several West Africans came from »