Here’s my solution to the problem of what to do with the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College

Lobengula was the second king of the Matabele people in what is now Zimbabwe. He was also the last. Cecil John Rhodes smashed his authority, and broke his tribe.

The Matabele (a breakaway people from the Zulu kingdom to the south) had been making their way north, and by the time Rhodes arrived on the scene were in effective control of a vast area of southern Africa, stretching from the Limpopo river to the Zambezi.

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TaggedAfrica, Bulawayo, Cecil Rhodes, History, leaders, Lenin, Lobengula, Matabele, Matabeleland, monuments, Mugabe, Oriel College, revisionism, Saddam, statues, Zimbabwe

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Here’s my solution to the problem of what to do with the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College

It should be allowed to remain — but opposite it should be erected a new statue of Lobengula, the great Matabele leader

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