This wasn’t a figment of mythology, but a real engineering feat that left the ancient world in awe: the Colossus of Rhodes.

Just when many companies are thinking of pulling out of troubled Africa, one is busily building a business empire as big as any since the heyday of Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company.

An exhibition aiming to "contextualise" the legacy of imperialist Cecil Rhodes will open at Oriel College, the site of a ...