The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by the English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne & Mads and published by Punch magazine in 1892. It depicts the English business magnate Cecil Rhodes as a giant straddling over Africa and holding a telegraph line grounded at the northern and southern ends of the continent, a reference to his desire to build a "Cape to Cairo" rail and telegraph line connecting most of the British colonies in Africa.
The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by the English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne & Mads and published by Punch magazine in 1892. It depicts the English business magnate Cecil Rhodes as a giant straddling over Africa and holding a telegraph line grounded at the northern and southern ends of the continent, a reference to his desire to build a "Cape to Cairo" rail and telegraph line connecting most of the British colonies in Africa.
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