Central African Republic

As every Southern African knows, Rhodes completed the conquest of the would-be Rhodesias and Nyasaland, partly at the expense of Portuguese claims over the vast landlocked territories of what is now Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia, when the Portuguese, perhaps day-dreaming, wanted a continuous central African empire from Luanda (Angola) to Lourenco Marques (now Maputo, capital of Mozambique).

during his graduate-school years, conjuring the details of a fictional central African empire or turning presidents' sons into toads.

Central African Republic to Central African Empire and back to Central African Republic