Rhodes' Ghost - The Conquest Of Zambesia

Rhodes endeavours shaped the domains of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Zambesia, and set down the trajectories marking southern Africa, while the Great Powers record of empire in Africa proved greatly inferior to Rhodesias. Zambesias long history of continuous turbulence on a troubled plateau was reversed by Rhodes Pioneer Column in 1890 when the First Rhodesians arrived following five decades of itinerant white presence in Zambesia. The Occupation of Mashonaland in 1890, conquest of Matabeleland in 1893 and the end of native rebellions in 1896-97 set the stage for decades of enduring prosperity in Rhodesia, Rhodes most enduring legacy. Pax Rhodesiana lasted ninety years, ending in a civil war.

Then, Rhodes memorabilia and many memorials were subjected to modern cultural cleansing, the inheritor state in time eroding and declining into a failing state.