The Colonialist. By William Kelleher Storey. Oxford University Press; 528 pages; $39.99 and £30.99 ...

Cecil Rhodes remains one of the most divisive figures in British history. Founder of the De Beers diamond company, he went on to establish one of the most prestigious international scholarship ...

William Kelleher Storey’s biography skirts the statues debate, but is clear-eyed about the magnate’s bitter legacy in southern Africa ...

This is a brave and learned book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Africa; who has taken sides in the recent quarrel about ‘Rhodes Must Fall’, in Oxford or other parts ...

If Cecil Rhodes was your specialist subject on Mastermind, William Kelleher Storey’s biography would supply the answer to ...

A statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University has drawn criticism for decades. Now some academics said they would refuse to teach at the college where the statue sits. By Elian ...

A statue of Cecil Rhodes, a 19th-century British colonialist, is seen outside the University of Oxford's Oriel College in Oxford, England, on June 18, 2020, following demonstrations for it's ...

Cecil Rhodes was one of the leading figures in British imperialism at the end of the 19th Century, pushing the empire to seize control over vast areas of southern Africa, first as a businessman ...

When Martin Shaw was first offered the part of Cecil Rhodes, the last of the great British empire-builders, he knew him only for the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford and for Rhodesia, the nation he ...

Rhodes attended Oriel College in the 1870 and went on to start the De Beers diamond firm in South Africa, then called Cape Colony, where he later became prime minister.

Oxford University in England will keep its statue of Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes, citing "regulatory and financial challenges," after previously expressing the desire to remove it.