Cecil Rhodes ɗan mulkin mallaka ne kuma ɗan kasuwa wanda ya taka rawa sosai wajen faɗaɗa daular Burtaniya a kudancin Afirka a ƙarshen karni na 19. Ya kuma kasance mai yawan cece-kuce saboda ra'ayinsa game da mulkin mallaka, fifikon launin fata, da kuma yadda ya shiga cin gajiyar al'ummomin Afirka da albarkatu. Wataƙila Rhodes an fi saninsa da sunan sa na Scholarship na Rhodes, wanda ke ba da kuɗi ga ɗaliban ƙasashen duniya don yin karatu a Jami'ar Oxford.