Cecil John Rhodes Rhodes as icon who combines culture and imperialism can be measured through his legacy, which then included his Rhodesia, his Chartered Company, his pieces of land and money that were left to the nation after his death. Rhodes’ public history competes at an equal level with academic literature on him hence his name remains un-erased in Southern African history. He was an imperialist, a British agent who thought that African continent was meant for Britain. ......what otherwise honorable explorers thought and did may be seen in the writings of men like Cecil Rhodes and his mineral-hunting agents, ready as they were to present themselves as honest allies of their African friends so long as the treaties were secured – the treaties through which ‘effective occupation’ could beproved to each other by the governments or private interests which they served and formed. Among the education curricula that were suggested to suit the natives was the one a Dutch official called “perfected natives, not imitation Europeans.” It is estimated that almost 3000kg of diamonds were extracted from the Kimberley Mines
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