ABSTRACT
The process by which the Bantu tribes of Southern and Central Africa were brought into contact with Western civilisation; and by which vast areas of Africa came to be controlled by European administration. The story of the nineteenth-century expansion of European settlement in South Africa, of the undaunted courage of the Dutch trekkers who founded the two Boer Republics of the North, and of the establishment and rapid northward march of the mission societies, must be sought elsewhere. As a young man of twenty at the new diamond diggings, Rhodes was dreaming of the extension of the British Empire in Africa and realising that he required wealth and political power to make his dreams come true. By the time Rhodes was ready the scramble for Africa had begun, and Germany, Portugal and the Transvaal were all anxious to secure a share of the spoils in Central Africa.
