Why did Cecil Rhodes establish the Rhodes Scholarships?
Rhodes profited greatly by exploiting Southern Africa’s natural resources, proceeds of which founded the Rhodes Scholarship upon his death. In his will, he left his money for the establishment of a secret society that would enable Britain to rule the entire productive world. The exact words are as follows: To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China a
