CECIL JOHN RHODES IN LOVE
Professor Jonny Steinberg, Council on African Studies, Yale University, United States of America; author, scholar
Wednesday 28 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES R115; Staff and students R58
This lecture will focus on the personal, political and commercial life of Cecil Rhodes, touching on his place in Britain’s imperial project, his homosexuality and his relationships with the men close to him. It will also focus on how he acquired wealth, and his legacy.
Recommended reading
Maylam, P. 2005. The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa. Johannesburg: David Philip Publishers.
Robert, R. 1998. The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Jonny Steinberg (born 22 March 1970) is a South African writer and scholar.Three of his books – Midlands (2002), about the murder of a white South African farmer, The Number (2004), a biography of a prison gangster, and Winnie & Nelson (2023) – won South Africa's premier non-fiction award, the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Prize making him the first writer to win it three times. In 2013, Steinberg was an inaugural winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes awarded by Yale University, and in 2024 was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.
Steinberg was educated at Wits University and at Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Oxford for nine years where he was Professor of African Studies. He currently teaches part-time at Yale University.