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From Cape Town To Cairo, Leslie L. Jones
From Cape Town To Cairo, Leslie L. Jones
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Cecil Rhodes has been dead twenty-two years. The flesh of the man has long since become dust; his dreams are about to become realities... two slender streaks of shining steel form Cape Town to Cairo. For the red now cleaves the heart of Africa, north and south, from the Inner Sea to The Cape of Good Hope. A great splash of red up and down this vast continent where fifty years ago but little red was to be seen.
And this is the simple task I have set myself in the present paper: accounting for the red, this astonishing growth …