
The discovery of diamonds in 1867 in Griqualand ultimately transformed the entire region of Southern Africa. Huge European financial investment and significant immigration followed. The diamonds led...

Matabeleland (1838-1897), also known as the Ndebele Empire or Mthwakazi by the Ndebele themselves, was an African state covering what is today part of southern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa. This...
📖 **The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes**
_The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.’_
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ǀXam language featured in Rhodes House inscription in Oxford.
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You know who #Trump reminds me of suddenly? #CecilRhodes.
Too much money connected to too much power, and weird ideas about reshaping the world in his own image. Impulsive desire to conquer other people's countries in pursuit of their minerals. Propped up by shady characters who egg him on with ever-crazier schemes.
Same damed thing.
Israel’s roots in European colonialism explain its genocidal ideology
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