Cecil Rhodes was born in 1853. He had always been a sickly child and he had become diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of sixteen. "The fact that he was diagnosed with TB and had recently left school changed his life forever". His parents thought a change of location would be good for him and sent him to South Africa in 1870, where his brother had recently gone to live and become a successful cotton farmer.
Rhodes flourished in Africa only traveling back to England in 1973 for his education, he had become a diamond millionaire at the age of 19 and had graduated from Oxford University in 1881. Our first source states, "The intellectual influences which Rhodes absorbed during period of study at Oxford University gave him a coherent framework for his political convictions." Rhodes was a wildly successful businessman.…
