I’ve realised that there is this awful bit of family history lurking in my past that I have always just accepted and never really questioned.
My Great Grandfather was very good friends with Cecil Rhodes and one of the first white men in Southern and Western Africa with him.
My Great Grandfather was very good friends with Cecil Rhodes and one of the first white men in Southern and Western Africa with him.
I’ve always just accepted this as a fact and never really questioned it. Felt uncomfortable but shrugged it off.
Upstairs are his photograph albums from late 19th century until 1913. He was responsible for provisioning the building of the railways. That included bringing indentured labour from India.
There are photos of Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zanzibar, Ceylon and India. There are photos from Rhodesia. There’s even a photo of Cecil Rhodes. My Great Grandfather was German. I have no idea how he met and became friends with Rhodes.
