A Matter Too Serious to be Overlooked!: The Causes, Course and Results of the AmaNdebele and Mashona Uprisings in 1896

Rhodes’s settlement ambitions ignited uprisings, exposing British imperial overreach and the volatile cost of conquest.

This book recounts a major error by Cecil Rhodes and the British Government in the scramble for Africa and uses many contemporary accounts as well of official documents.

The settlement of Mashonaland and Matabeleland was accomplished by settlement and conquest and were the result of the schemes of Cecil John Rhodes and his right-hand man, Leander Starr Jameson to expand the ...