Who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo?
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Who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo originally?
Edwin Arnold
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Who was a politician who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo?
Cecil John Rhodes
Cape to Cairo Railway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20to%20Cairo%20Railway
The original proposal for a Cape to Cairo railway was made in 1874 by Edwin Arnold, then the editor of The Daily Telegraph, which was joint sponsor of the expedition by H.M. Stanley to Africa to discover the course of the Congo River.
Cape to Cairo Railway
Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSI (10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work The Light of Asia.
Edwin Arnold
Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902)[1] was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Cecil Rhodes
There were several who wanted to create a railroad from Cape Town to Cairo, including English poet and journalist Edwin Arnold, who wanted to create the railroad originally and made the original proposal for a Cape to Cairo railway in 1874, and Cecil John Rhodes, a British mining magnate and politician.