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Rex Nettleford. Ralston Milton " Rex " Nettleford OM FIJ OCC (3 February 1933 – 2 February 2010) [1] [2] [3] was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Feb 5, 2023 · As a prelude to The Rex Nettleford Foundation’s ‘Remembering Rex’, slated for Wednesday, February 8 at The Little Theatre, The Sunday Gleaner set out to speak to some who knew him well. When asked what comes to mind when thinking of Nettleford, Marjorie Whylie, a notable pianist, percussionist, and educator who was the musical director of NDTC for 45 years says, “There is so much.
And with a lifetime of dignified and distinguished service to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, Professor the Hon. Ralston Milton ‘Rex’ Nettleford, established himself as the quintessential Caribbean patriot, whose contributions will forever be etched into the annals of the region’s history. National patriot, cultural ambassador ...
Feb 17, 2010 · Rex Nettleford, a Jamaican scholar, educator and choreographer who devoted his life to studying postcolonial Caribbean culture and in the process helped shape it, died in Washington on Feb. 2, one ...
Rex Nettleford and His Works: An Annotated Bibliography, edited by Albertina Jefferson, is a 194 page compilation of his scholarly and creative output. In the international arena, Rex Nettleford has received some fourteen honourary degrees from universities including the UniverSity of Toronto and the University of Oxford whose Oriel College also made him one of its Fellows (of which there are ...
REX NETTLEFORD, was a well-known Caribbean scholar, trade union educator, social and cultural historian and political analyst. A former Rhodes Scholar, he was Vice Chancellor Emeritus at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. After taking an undergraduate degree in History at the UWI he pursued post-graduate studies in Politics at Oxford.
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Rex Nettleford and The UWI. Rex spent most of his adult life at The University of the West Indies, except for three years at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. His curriculum vitae shows how he ascended the academic ladder, from Resident Tutor in the Extra- Mural Department, through Director of Studies of the Trade Union Education Institute ...
