Helen Kimble
Helen Kimble, née Rankin (1925 – 4 December 2019) was an Africanist and campaigner.[1]
Life
Helen Rankin was born in
The Kimbles worked together on several projects, particularly publications for African audiences. Helen edited a series of pamphlets on African current affairs, and co-edited the African series for Penguin Group. In 1963 she and David co-founded the Journal of Modern African Studies, co-editing it until 1972. She also taught economics at the University of Dar es Salaam.[1]
Divorcing David in 1977, Helen moved to live in Oxford. She worked with the anti-apartheid movement, monitoring the 1994 South African general election, which brought Nelson Mandela to power. She also campaigned in support of the refugees imprisoned at Campsfield House.[1]
She died aged 94 on 4 December 2019.[2]
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.
References
- ^ a b c d Lalage Bown, Helen Kimble obituary, The Guardian, 2 March 1920.
- ^ "Helen Kimble, 1925–2019". Cambridge University Press. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
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