Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes
Author: Michael Ledger-Lomas.
Cecil Rhodes viewed the 'native question' differently from imperial officials and missionaries.
A disturbing photograph in Olive Schreiner's novel Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) shows three dead African men hanging from a tree.
It is hard to look at the frontispiece of the first edition of Olive Schreiner’s short novel Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897).
The photograph was taken in Southern Rhodesia during the Ndebele rebellion against the British South Africa Company.
Author summary: Cecil Rhodes' ruthless views on the 'native question'.