Rhodes ordered his aims as native welfare, British power, then personal gain

Evidence

Rhodes’s racial imperialism was committed to extending British rule over as much of Africa as he could ensure. In the case of South Africa-inthe-making, this was to be effected where necessary with the help of the boers, more or less European equals. And it was to be effected, Rhodes emphasized, for the good of the natives (though nobody asked them), for the power of Britain, and only then and instrumentally for personal wealth and prestige. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1466

Categorization

• CANDY: The giveaway parenthetical ‘though nobody asked them’ tucked into Rhodes’s own declared priority ordering is a sharp, quotable example of colonial paternalism’s self-deception.