A BAD MAN IN AFRICA The evil that men do lives after them - and rarely more miserably than in the case of Cecil Rhodes, who died 100 years ago this month. Matthew Sweet considers the fluctuating reputation of a national hero who became a national embarrassment

The Independent - London | March 16, 2002| | Copyright

North of the Zambezi, they have long known about the suppression of free speech, about the bloody redistribution of land along racial lines, about politicians happy to employ armed - and sometimes uniformed - mobs to kill their opponents. They are practices imported to this region, along with the railways, by the British.

Unlike the African press, the Western media rarely invoke the name of Cecil John Rhodes: nearly a century after his death - on 26 March 1902 - his name is more associated with Oxford Scholarships than with murder. It's easier to focus on the region's more recent, less Anglo ...

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