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Article: So little done, so much to do. (developed world has left Africa to save itself)(Sub-Saharan Africa survey)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 7, 1996
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TUCKED away beside the museum in Bulawayo is a statue of Cecil Rhodes. It used to bestride Main Street, facing north to symbolise his dream that a swathe of British territory, coloured imperial red on the map, would stretch from the Cape to Cairo. Until a few years ago, the empire builder's likeness also appeared in the watermark of Rhodesia's pound note, ringed with these words from a poem by Rudyard Kipling:
The immense and brooding spirit still
Shall quicken and control.
Living he was the land, and dead,
His soul shall be her soul.
The vision has gone with the wind. The European powers which formalised their scramble for Africa at the ...