Professor Rex Nettleford

by Patricia Parke Bell
(Negril, Jamaica)

Late professor, dancer and a long list of accomplishments.

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Rex was a distinguished 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.

He went to Cornwall College in Montego Bay before going to the University of the Westindies (UWI) to obtain an honours degree in history.

He was a recipient of the 1957 Rhodes Scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford where he received a postgraduate degree in Politics, and returned to Jamaica in the early 1960s to take up a position at the University of the West Indies.

He died on February 2, 2010 but is considered to be one of Jamaica’s brightest sons and cultural icon. For the full biography of Dr. Nettleford, please see this Wikipedia article .
Source: Wikipedia.org.

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