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27 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read

Cecil Rhodes - Mega Racist

Context..

Founder of De Beers..

King of Diamonds with his buddy Ernest Oppenheimer..

Rhodes writes:

It's a long storied history of elitism in Africa..

Racism in Kimberley, South Africa

In 1895 the British South Africa Company adopted the name "Rhodesia" for a territory, in honour of Rhodes.

In 1898 "Southern Rhodesia" became the official name for the region south of the Zambezi, which later adopted the name "Zimbabwe".

Seems the theme of "exploitation" has been concurrent in this area of the world for a number of years..

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