Cape To Cairo (other)
Cape to Cairo may refer to: * Cape to Cairo Railway * Cape to Cairo Red Line, the 19th century concept of a British-dominated Africa, promoted by Cecil Rhodes * Cape to Cairo Road See also * '' Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town'', a book by Paul Theroux * The Rhodes Colossus ''The Rhodes Colossus'' is an editorial cartoon illustrated by English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by ''Punch'' magazine in 1892. It alludes to the Scramble for Africa during the New Imperialism period, in which the Euro ...

Cape To Cairo Railway
The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing Africa from south to north. It would have been the largest and most important railway of that continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt.Railways of Congo
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SKY Company. 2020. The project was never completed. Important parts which were completed have been inoperative for many years, due to wars and lack of maintenance by the former colonies. This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western colonial rule, largely based on the vision of

Cape To Cairo Red Line
Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining business magnate, magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company colonised the southern African territory of Rhodesia (region), Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. He also devoted much effort to realising his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. The son of a vicar, Rhodes was born at Rhodes Arts Complex, Netteswell House, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. A sickly child, he was sent to South Africa by his family when he was 17 years old in the hope that the climate might improve his health. He entered the diamond trade at Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kimb ...
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Cape To Cairo Road
The Cape to Cairo Road or Pan-African Highway, sometimes called the Great North Road in sub-Saharan Africa, was a proposed road that would stretch the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo, through the Cape to Cairo Red Line of British colonies. The proposal was similar to the Cape to Cairo Railway, another proposed infrastructure project through the same colonies. Neither were completed before British colonial rule ended in the colonies. In the 1980s the plan was revived with modifications as the Cairo–Cape Town Highway, known as Trans-African Highway 4, in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union, as part of the Trans-African Highway network. While it uses most of the same roads as the original Cape to Cairo Road, it uses different routes in a few places. History The original proposal for a North South Red Line route was made in 1874 by E ...
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Overland From Cairo To Cape Town
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