After the Berlin Conference in 1878, the African Division and the British Imperial Cecil Rhodes

 ◑ Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902): Cecil Rhodes was born in 1853 as the son of an English minister. Rose, who was weak, left the suburbs of London at the age of seventeen and came to South Africa, the "land of the sun," for medical treatment. Rose, who was in Natal, happened to be a part of the diamond boom of the time, and later became a millionaire, succeeding in the gold mining business. When the news of diamonds and gold became known, workers, capitalists, and merchants from all over the world flocked to South Africa, creating new villages, cities, and ports. Johannesburg, Transvaal, became a major city with a population of 40,000 (25,000 Europeans and 15,000 Africans) in 1889. Rose, who became the No. 1 businessman, also entered politics in the Cape Colony, and became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in 1890. The UK has a small territory and only 6 million of its 36 million people can live there. So we need to take any control of the territory on this planet that would be a free and open market for our British production. I believe that Britain is the first race in the world, and the wider the world we live in, the happier humanity will be and the end of all wars." This was the philosophy of the imperialist Cesar Rose. After gaining privileges, Rose organized an expeditionary force and conquered remote areas, making Rhodesia (meaning Rose's country) the land of the British South African company. When he left the company in 1914, Rhodesia, which became a British colony, was four and a half times as wide as England. ◑ Cecil Rose's Idea ▶ I went to the East End of London yesterday and watched the unemployment contest. And when I heard a few harsh speeches there that were tantamount to screaming for bread, I was more convinced of the importance of imperialism. …I think that if there is a God in this world, it is a God who recognizes these two missions: to paint the map of Africa as British as possible, and to promote the unification of the English-speaking race and expand it into one world as far as it can be affected. …my ambition is the solution of social problems. In order to protect the British Empire's 40 million people from a bloody civil war, our colonial politicians must carve out new territory to accommodate the overpopulation and create new markets for the goods they produce in factories and mines. The crucial issue, as I have always said, is the issue of the rice bowl. If they don't want a civil war, they have to be imperialists. ▶ The world is almost completely divided. The remaining areas are also being divided, conquered, and colonized. I think about stars twinkling in the night sky, the vast world that we can never reach, and if possible I want to swallow up even the meteor. I sometimes get carried away by this idea. It makes me sad to see a meteor so far away even though it is so clearly visible. -- In Cecil Rose's Will (1902)...