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'''Helen Kimble''', nee '''Rankin''' (c.1925-2020) was an Africanist and campaigner.<ref name=GuardianObit>Lalage Bown, [https://ift.tt/2I9nEqb Helen Kimble obituary], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 2 March 1920.</ref>
==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.<ref name=GuardianObit/>
The Kimbles worked together on several projects, particularly publications for African audiences. Helen ediced a series of pamphlets on African current affairs, and co-edited the African series for [[Penguin]]. 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]].<ref name=GuardianObit/>
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]].<ref name=GuardianObit/>
She died aged 94 in 2020.<ref name=GuardianObit/>
==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==
[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:British Africanists]]
[[Category:British human rights activists]]
[[Category:International opponents of apartheid in South Africa]]
[[Category:Immigrant rights activists]]
[[Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:People educated at Queenswood School]]
==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.<ref name=GuardianObit/>
The Kimbles worked together on several projects, particularly publications for African audiences. Helen ediced a series of pamphlets on African current affairs, and co-edited the African series for [[Penguin]]. 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]].<ref name=GuardianObit/>
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]].<ref name=GuardianObit/>
She died aged 94 in 2020.<ref name=GuardianObit/>
==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==
[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:British Africanists]]
[[Category:British human rights activists]]
[[Category:International opponents of apartheid in South Africa]]
[[Category:Immigrant rights activists]]
[[Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:People educated at Queenswood School]]
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