AN ODYSSEY OF THREE BOTSWANA KINGS ‘1895’

On September 6th, 1895, three African kings with a few attendants arrived at Plymouth by ship from Cape Town, en route to London by train. The timing of their visit was to attend the 100th anniversary of the late David Livingstone’s London Missionary Society. The underlying reason for the visit was the urgent need to reverse the British government’s decision to hand over their Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) homeland to the ‘Rhodesia’ colony of multi-millionaire Cape Colony prime minister Cecil John Rhodes.