Rhodesia
End of a Dream
by
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About the Book
Although the idea of a continuous British dominion from the Cape Colony to Cairo in Egypt was first formulated by William Gladstone and Sir Rutherford Alcock and summed up by Sir Edwin Arnold in the phrase “From Cape to Cairo,” it was Cecil Rhodes who finally embraced this dream as a viable project. This book outlines how close the dream came to reality as far as Central Africa was concerned and why, in the end, it was the impossible dream.
About the Author
The author was born in Yorkshire and educated at Keighley Grammar School and Manchester University, immigrating to Rhodesia in 1952 as a civil servant. He was involved in the federalization process from 1954 to 1955, joined the Federal Intelligence and Security Bureau in 1961, and served as Regional Liaison Officer in Ndola during the Katanga crisis, returning to England in 1962. Since then, he has maintained an active interest and contacts in the situation in Rhodesia and, later, Zimbabwe.