Cecil Rhodes expressed his support for the project, seeing it as a means to connect the various ‘possessions’ of the British Empire across Africa, facilitating the movement of troops and natural ...

Wallace Mkanka holds his winning sculpture for an upcoming Oxford University exhibition on Cecil Rhodes’ legacy, at Chitungwiza Arts Centre near Harare, Zimbabwe.

In Bulawayo’s railway museum his now-dusty personal carriage is preserved, along with his cutlery, bed and on-board bathtub. In the nearby Matobo Hills I watched rainbow lizards scuttle over the plain ...

Oxford University’s Oriel College has announced plans to host an exhibition “contextualising” the controversial 19th-century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. A statue of Rhodes by Henry ...

Oxford's Oriel College has announced it will not be removing its controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes, but instead will stage a new exhibition aimed at addressing the 'legacy of colonialism'. The ...

Just when many companies are thinking of pulling out of troubled Africa, one is busily building a business empire as big as any since the heyday of Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company ...

The incredible 3.4k-mile railway that would've crossed a continent but was never completed A plan launched in the late 19th-century intended to connect southern to northern Africa across a ...

A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history While almost no Jews live there today, the central African nation is still influenced by the community’s ...

To mark the jubilee of the foundation of the two Rhodesias by Cecil Rhodes in 1890 and the centenary of the setting out of David Livingstone for Africa in 1840, it is proposed to found a Rhodes ...

A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history Today, Zambia is home to only about 11 Jews. That wasn’t always the case.

News A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history Today, there are almost no Jews living in Zambia, a nation of about 20 million in central Africa. But ...