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Spanish Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,800
Belgian Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900,000
Turkish Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400,000
Independent Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 613,000
11,458,811
(J. S. K.)
1. Commercial treaties between Carthage and Rome were made in the 6th and
5th centuries B.C.. The first armed conflict between the rival powers, begun in 264 B.C., was a contest for the possession of Sicily.
2. This river was called by the Portuguese the Zaire. They appear to have made no attempt to trace its course beyond the rapids which stop navigation from the sea.
3. France acquired, as stations for her ships on the voyage to and from
India, settlements in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands. The first settlement was made in 1642.
4. The Association, in 1831, was merged in the Royal Geographical Society.
5. The Mamelukes, whom the Turks had overthrown in the 16th century, had regained practically independent power.
6. In imitation of the British example, an American society founded in 1822 the negro colony (now republic) of Liberia.
7. The first territorial acquisition made by Great Britain in this region was in 1851, when Lagos Island was annexed.
8. As early as 1848 an Arab from Zanzibar journeying across the continent had arrived at Benguella.
9. Another great traveller of this stamp was Wilhelm Junker, who spent the greater part of the period 1875-1886 in the east central Sudan.
10. Specially appointed to consider West African affairs.
11. See the tables in Behm and Wagner's Bevolkerung der Erde (Gotha, 1872).
12. in 1887 this society united with the German Colonial Society, an organization founded in 1882. The united society took the title of the
German Colonial Company.
13. At this period negotiations between Great Britain and Italy had begun but were not concluded.
14. This association, formed in 1878 by a union of associations primarily intended for the exploration of Africa, ceased to exist in 1891.
VI. EXPLORATION AND SURVEY SINCE 1875
In giving the history of the partition of the continent, the later work
of exploration, except where, as in the case of de Brazza's expeditions, it
had direct political consequences, has of necessity not been told. The
results achieved during and after the period of partition may now be
indicated. Stanley's great journey down the Congo in 1875-1876 initiated a
new era in African exploration. The numbers of travellers soon became so
great that the once marvellous feat of crossing the continent from sea to
sea became common. With increased knowledge and much ampler means of
communication trans-African travel now presents few difficulties. While
d'Anville and other cartographers of the 18th century, by omitting all that
was uncertain, had left a great blank on the map, the work accomplished
since 1875 has filled it with authentic topographical details. Moreover
surveys of high accuracy have been made at several points. As the work of
exploration and survey progressed journeys of startling novelty became
impossible—save in the eastern Sahara, where the absence of water and
boundless wastes of sand render exploration more difficult, perhaps, than
in any other region of the globe. Within their respective spheres of
influence each power undertook detailed surveys, and the most solid of the
latest accessions to knowledge have resulted from the labours of hard-
working colonial officials toiling individually in obscurity. Their work it
is impossible here to recognize adequately; the following lines record only
the more obvious achievements. The relation of the Congo basin to the
neighbouring river systems was brought out by the journeys of many
travellers. In 1877 an important expedition was sent out by the Portuguese
government under Serpa Pinto, Brito Capello and Roberto
Work in the Congo.
Ivens for the exploration of the interior of Angola. The first named made
his way by the head-streams of the Kubango to the upper Zambezi, which he
descended to the Victoria Falls, proceeding thence to Pretoria and Durban.
Capello and Ivens confined their attention to the south-west Congo basin, where they disproved the existence of Lake Aquilunda, which had figured on
the maps of that region since the 16th century. In a later journey (1884-
1885) Capello and Ivens crossed the continent from Mossamedes to the mouth
of the Zambezi, adding considerably to the knowledge of the borderlands
between the upper Congo and the upper Zambezi. More important results were
obtained by the German travellers Paul Pogge and Hermann von Wissmann, who
(1880-1882) passed through previously unknown regions beyond Muata Yanvo's
kingdom, and reached the upper Congo at Nyangwe, whence Wissmann made his
way to the east coast. In 1884-1885 a German expedition under Wissmann
solved the most important geographical problem relating to the southern
Congo basin by descending the Kasai, the largest southern tributary, which, contrary to expectation, proved to unite with the Kwango and other streams
before joining the main river. Further additions to the knowledge of the
Congo tributaries were made at the same time by the Rev. George Grenfell, a
Baptist missionary, who (accompanied in 1885 by K. von Francois) made
several voyages in the steamer ``Peace,'' especially up the great Ubangi, ultimately proved to be the lower course of the Welle, discovered in 1870
by Schweinfurth.
In East as in West Africa operations were started by agents of the
Belgian committee, but with less success than on the Congo.
Opening up East Africa.
The first new journey of importance on this side was made (1878-1880) on
behalf of the British African Exploration Committee by Joseph Thomson, who
after the death of his leader, Keith Johnston, made his way from the coast
to the north end of Nyasa, thence to Tanganyika, on both sides of which he
broke new ground, sighting the north end of Lake Rukwa on the east. In 1882-
1884 the French naval lieutenant Victor Giraud proceeded by the north of
Nyasa to Lake Bangweulu, of which he made the first fairly correct map.
North of the Zanzibar-Tanganyika route a large area of new ground was
opened in 1883-1884 by Joseph Thomson, who traversed the whole length of
the Masai country to Lake Baringo and Victoria Nyanza, shedding the first
clear light on the great East African rift-valley and neighbouring
highlands, including Mounts Kenya and Elgon. A great advance in the region
between Victoria Nyanza and Abyssinia was made in 1887-1889 by the
Austrians, Count Samuel Teleki and Lieut. Ludwig von Hohnel, who discovered
the large Basso Norok, now known as Lake Rudolf, till then only vaguely
indicated on the map as Samburu. At this time Somaliland was being opened
up by English and Italian travellers. In 1883 the brothers F. L. and W. D.
James penetrated from Berbera to the Webi Shebeli; in 1892 Vittorio Bottego
(afterwards murdered in the Abyssinian highlands) started from Berbera and
reached the upper Juba, which he explored to its source. The first person, however, to cross from the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Ocean was an
American, A. Donaldson Smith, who in 1894-1895 explored the headstreams of
the Webi Shebeli and also explored the Omo, the feeder of Lake Rudolf.
In the region north-west of Victoria Nyanza the greatest additions to
geographical knowledge were made by H. M. Stanley in his last expedition, undertaken for the relief of Emin Pasha. The expedition set out in 1887 by
way of the Congo to carry supplies to the governor of the old Egyptian
Equatorial province. The route lay up the Aruwimi, the principal tributary
of the Congo from the north-east, by which the expedition made its way, encountering immense difficulties, through the great equatorial forest, the
character and extent of which were thus for the first time brought to
light. The return was made to the east coast, and resulted in the discovery
of the great snowy range of Ruwenzori or Runsoro, and the confirmation of
the existence of a third Nile lake discharging its waters into the Albert
Nyanza by the Semliki river. A further discovery was that of a large bay, hitherto unsuspected, forming the south-west corner of the Victoria Nyanza.
Great activity was also displayed in completing the work of earlier
explorers in North and West Africa. Morocco was in
Expeditions in North and West Africa.
1883-1884 the scene of important explorations by de Foucauld, a Frenchman
who, disguised as a Jew, crossed and re-crossed the Atlas and supplied the
first trustworthy information as to the orography of many parts of the
chain. In 1887-1889 Louis Gustave Binger, a French officer, made a great
journey through the countries enclosed in the Niger bend, and in 1890-1892
Col. P. F. Monteil went from St Louis to Say, on the Niger, thence through
Sokoto to Bornu and Lake Chad, whence he crossed the Sahara to Tripoli.
Meantime explorers had been busy in the region between Lake Chad, the Gulf
of Guinea and the Congo. The Sanga, one of the principal northern
tributaries of the Congo, was reached from the north by Lieut. Louis Mizon, a French naval officer, who drew the first line of communication between
the Benue and the Congo (1890-1892). In 1890 Paul Crampel, who in the
previous year had explored north of the Ogowe, undertook a great expedition
from the Ubangi to the Shari, but was attacked and killed, with several of
his companions, on the borders of the Bagirmi. Several other expeditions
followed, and in 1806 Emile Gentil reached the Shari, launched a steamer on
its waters and pushed on to Lake Chad. Early in 1900 Lake Chad was also
reached by F. Foureau, a French traveller, who had already devoted twelve
years to the exploration of the Sahara and who on this occasion had crossed
the desert from Algeria and had reached the lake via Air and Zinder.
The last ten years of the 19th century also witnessed many interesting
expeditions in east Central Africa. In 1891 Emin
Lakes and mountains of Equatorial Africa.
Pasha, accompanied by Dr F. Stuhlmann, made his way south of Victoria
Nyanza to the western Nile lakes, visiting for the first time the southern
and western shores of Albert Edward. Stuhlmann also ascended the Ruwenzori
range to a height of over 13,000 ft. In the same year Dr O. Baumann, who
had already done good work in Usambara, near the coast, started on a more
extended journey through the region of steppes between Kilimanjaro and
Victoria Nyanza, afterwards exploring the headstreams of the Kagera, the
ultimate sources of the Nile. In the steppe region referred to he
discovered two new lakes, Manyara and Eiassi, occupying parts of the East
African valley system. This region was again traversed in 1893-1894 by
Count von Gotzen, who continued his route westwards to Lake Kivu, north of
Tanganyika, which, though heard of by Speke over thirty years before, had
never yet been visited. He also reached for the first time the line of
volcanic peaks north of Kivu, one of which he ascended, afterwards crossing
the great equatorial forest by a new route to the Congo and the west coast.
Valuable scientific work was done in 1893 by Dr J.W. Gregory, who ascended
Mount Kenya to a height of 16,000 ft. In 1893-1894 Scott Elliot reached
Ruwenzori by way of Uganda, returning by Tanganyika and Nyasa, and in 1896
C. W. Hobley made the circuit of the great mountain Elgon, north-east of
Victoria Nyanza. In 1899 Mount Kenya was ascended to its summit by a party
under H. J. Mackinder. The exploration of Mount Kilimanjaro has been the
special work of Dr Hans Meyer, who first directed his attention to it in
1887.
The region south of Abyssinia proper and north of Lake Rudolf, being
largely the basin of the Sobat tributary of the Nile, was traversed by
several explorers, among whom may be mentioned Capt. M. S. Wellby, who in
1898-1899 explored the chain of small lakes in south-east Abyssinia, pushed
on to Lake Rudolf, and thence traversed hitherto unknown country to the
lower Sobat. Donaldson Smith crossed from Berbera to the Nile by Lake
Rudolf in 1899-1900, and Major H. H. Austin commanded two survey parties
between the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Lake Rudolf during 1899-1901. Meantime
in south Central Africa the Barotse country had been partly made known by
the missionary F. Coillard, who settled there in 1884, while the middle and
upper Zambezi basin were scientifically explored and mapped by Major A. St
H. Gibbons and his assistants in 1895-1896 and 1898-1900. In the same
period the Congo-Zambezi watershed was traced by a Belgian officer, Capt.
C. Lemaire, who had ascended one of the upper tributaries of the Kasai.
In the early years of the 19th century the first recorded crossing of
Africa took place. That crossing and all subsequent crossings had been made
either from west to east or east to west. The first journey through the
whole length of the continent was accomplished in the two last years of the
century when a young Englishman, E. S. Grogan, starting from Cape Town
reached the Mediterranean by way of the Zambezi, the central line of lakes
and the Nile. Other travellers followed in Grogan's footsteps, among the
first, Major Gibbons.
Additions to topographical knowledge were made from about 1890 onwards by
the international commissions which traced
Work of international commissions and surveying parties.
the frontiers of the protectorates of the European powers. On several
occasions the labours of the commissions disclosed errors of importance in
the maps upon which international agreements had been based. Among those
which yielded valuable results were the Anglo-French commission which in
1903 traced the Nigerian frontier from the Niger to Lake Chad, and the
Anglo-German commission which in 1903-1904 fixed the Cameroon boundary
between Yola, on the Benue, and Lake Chad. These expeditions and French
surveys in the same region during 1902-1903 resulted in the discovery that
Lake Chad had greatly decreased in area since the middle of the 19th
century. In 1903 a French officer, Capt. E. Lenfant, succeeded in
establishing the fact of a connexion between the Niger and Chad basins.
Subsequently Lenfant explored the western basin of the Shari, determining
(1907) the true upper branch of that river.
In East Africa a German-Congolese commission surveyed (1901-1902) Lake
Kivu and the volcanic region north of the lake, R. Kandt making a special
study of Kivu and the Kagera sources, while the Anglo-German boundary
commission of 1902-1904 surveyed the valley of the lower Kagera, and fixed
the exact position of Albert Edward Nyanza. Much new information concerning
the border-lands of British East Africa and Abyssinia between Lake Rudolf
and the lower Juba was obtained by the survey executed in 1902-1903 by a
British officer, Captain P. Maud.
While political requirements led to the exact determination of frontiers, administrative needs forced the governments concerned to take in hand the
survey of the countries under their protection. Before the close of the
first decade of the 20th century tolerably accurate maps had been made of
the German colonies, of a considerable part of West Africa, the Algerian
Sahara and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, mainly by military officers. A British
naval officer, Commander B. Whitehouse, mapped the entire coastdine of
Victoria Nyanza. Government and railway surveys apart, the chief points of
interest for explorers during 1904-1906 were the Ruwenzori range and the
connexion of the basin of Lake Chad with the Niger and Congo systems.
Lieut. Boyd Alexander was the leader of a party which during the years
named surveyed Lake Chad and a considerable part of eastern Nigeria, returning to England via the Shari, the Ubangi and the Nile. Two members of
the party, Capt. Claud Alexander and Capt. G. B. Gosling, died during the
expedition. The Ruwenzori Mountains proved a great source of attraction.
Sir H. H. Johnston had in 1900 ascended beyond the snow-line to 14,800 ft.;
in 1903 Dr J. J. David had reached from the west to a height he believed to
exceed 16,000 ft.; and in the same year Capt. T. T. Behrens, of the Anglo-
German Uganda boundary commission, fixed the highest summit at 16,619 ft.
During 1904-1906 some half-dozen expeditions were at work in the region.
That of the duke of the Abruzzi was the most successful. In the summer of
1906 the duke or members of his party climbed all the highest peaks, none
of which reaches 17,000 ft., and determined the main lines of the
watershed. Major Powell-Cotton, a British officer who had previously done
good work in Abyssinia and British East Africa, spent 1905-1906 in a
detailed examination of the Lado enclave and the country west of Ruwenzori
and Albert and Albert Edward lakes. This expedition was specially fruitful
in additions to zoological knowledge.
Archaeological research, stimulated by the reports of Thomas Shaw,
British consular chaplain at Algiers in 1719- 1731, by James Bruce's
exploration, 1765-1767, of the ruins in Barbary, and by the French conquest
of Egypt in 1798, has been systematically carried out in North Africa since
the middle of the 19th century (see EGYPT and AFRICA, ROMAN.) In South
Africa the first thorough examination of the ruins in Rhodesia was made in
1905, when Randall-MacIver demonstrated that the great Zimbabwe and similar
buildings were of medieval or post-medieval origin. (F. R. C.)
VII. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
The eagerness with which the nations of western Europe partitioned Africa
between them was due, as has been seen, more to the necessities of commerce
than to mere land hunger. Yet, except in the north and south temperate
regions, the commercial intercourse of the continent with the rest of the
world had been until the closing years of the 19th century of insignificant
proportions. In addition to slaves, furnished by the continent from the
earliest times, a certain amount of gold and ivory was exported from the
tropical regions, but no other product supplied the material for a
flourishing trade with those parts. To their Asiatic and European invaders
the Africans indeed owed many creature comforts—the introduction of maize, rice, the sugar cane, the orange, the lemon and the lime, cloves, tobacco
and many other vegetable products, the camel, the horse and other
animals—but invaluable to Africa as were these gifts they led to little
development of commerce. The continent continued in virtual isolation from
the great trade movements of the
Causes of isolation.
world, an isolation due not so much to its poverty in natural resources, as
to the special circumstances which likewise caused so large a part of the
continent to remain so long a terra incognita. The principal drawbacks may
be summarized as: (1) the absence of means of communication with the
interior; (2) the unhealthiness of the coast-lands; (3) the small
productive activity of the natives; (4) the effects of the slave trade in
discouraging legitimate commerce. None of these causes is necessarily
permanent, that most difficult to remove being the third; the negro races
finding the means of existence easy have little incentive to toil. The
first drawback has almost disappeared, and the building of railways and the
placing of steamers on the rivers and lakes—a work continually progressing
—renders it year by year easier for producer and consumer to come together.
As to the second drawback, while the coast-lands in the tropics will
always remain comparatively unhealthy, improved sanitation and the
destruction of the malarial mosquito have rendered tolerable to Europeans
regions formerly notorious for their deadly climate.
At various periods since the partition of the continent began, united
action has been taken by the powers of Europe in the interests of African
trade. The Berlin conference of 1884-1885 decreed freedom of navigation and
trade on the Congo and the Niger, and the Anglo-Portuguese treaty of 1891
secured like privileges for the Zambezi. The Berlin conference likewise
enacted that over a wide area of Central Africa—the conventional basin of
the Congo—there should be complete freedom of trade, a freedom which later
on was held to be infringed in the Congo State and French Congo by the
granting to various companies proprietary rights in the disposal of the
product of the soil. More important in their effect on the economic
condition of the continent than the steps taken to ensure freedom of trade
were the measures concerted by the powers for the suppression of the slave
trade. The British government had for long borne the greater part of the
burden of combating the slave trade on the east coast of Africa and in the
Indian Ocean, but the changed conditions which resulted from the appearance
of other European powers in Africa induced Lord Salisbury, then foreign
secretary, to address, in the autumn of 1888, an invitation to the king of
the Belgians to take the initiative in inviting a conference of the powers
at Brussels to concert measures for ``the gradual suppression of the
Suppression of the slave trade.
slave trade on the continent of Africa, and the immediate closing of all
the external markets which it still supplies.'' The conference assembled in
November 1889, and on the 2nd of July 1890 a general act was signed subject
to the ratification of the various governments represented, ratification
taking place subsequently at different dates, and in the case of France
with certain reservations. The general act began with a declaration of the
means which the powers were of opinion might be most effectually adopted
for ``putting an end to the crimes and devastations engendered by the
traffic in African slaves, protecting effectively the aboriginal
populations of Africa, and ensuring for that vast continent the benefits of
peace and civilization.'' It proceeded to lay down certain rules and
regulations of a practical character on the lines suggested. The act covers
a wide field, and includes no fewer than a hundred separate articles. It
established a zone ``between the 20th parallel of north latitude, and the
22nd parallel of south latitude, and extending westward to the Atlantic and
eastward to the Indian Ocean and its dependencies, comprising the islands
adjacent to the coast as far as 100 nautical miles from the shore,'' within
which the importation of firearms and ammunition was forbidden except in
certain specified cases, and within which also the powers undertook either
to prohibit altogether the importation and manufacture of spirituous
liquors, or to impose duties not below an agreed-on minimum.1 An elaborate
series of rules was framed for the prevention of the transit of slaves by
sea, the conditions on which European powers were to grant to natives the
right to fly the flag of the protecting power, and regulating the procedure
connected with the right of search on vessels flying a foreign flag. The
Brussels Act was in effect a joint declaration by the signatory powers of
their joint and several responsibility towards the African native, and
notwithstanding the fact that many of its articles have proved difficult, if not impossible, of enforcement, the solemn engagement taken by Europe in
the face of the world has undoubtedly exercised a material influence on the
action of several of the powers. Moreover, with the increase of means of
communication and the extension of effective European control, slave-
raiding in the interior was largely checked and inter-tribal wars
prevented, the natives being thus given security in the pursuit of trade
and agriculture.
Other important factors in the economic as well as the social conditions
of Africa are the advance in civilization made by the natives in several
regions and the increase of the areas found suitable for white
colonization. The advance in civilization among the natives, exemplified by
the granting to them of political rights in such countries as Algeria and
Cape Colony, leads directly to increased commercial activity; and commerce
increases in a much greater degree when new countries— e.g. Rhodesia and
British East Africa—become the homes of Europeans. Finally, in reviewing
the chief factors which govern the commercial development of the continent, note must be taken of the sparsity of the population over the greater part
of Africa, and the efforts made to supplement the insufficient and often
ineffective native labour by the introduction of Asiatic labourers in
various districts—of Indian coolies in Natal and elsewhere, and of Chinese
for the gold mines of the Transvaal.
The resources of Africa may be considered under the head of: (1) jungle
products; (2) cultivated products; (3) animal
Chief economic resources.
products; (4) minerals. Of the first named the most important are india-
rubber and palm-oil. which in tropical Africa supply by far the largest
items in the export list. The rubber-producing plants are found throughout
the whole tropical belt, and the most important are creepers of the order
Apocynaceae, especially various species of Landolphia (with which genus
Vahea is now united). In East Africa Landolphia kirkii (Dyer) supplies the
largest amount, though various other species are known Forms of apparently
wider distribution are L. hendelotii, which is found in the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and extends right across the continent to Senegambia; and L. (formerly
Vahea) comorensis, which, including its variety L. florida, has the widest
distribution of all the species, occurring in Upper and Lower Guinea, the
whole of Central Africa, the east coast, the Comoro Islands and Madagascar.
In parts of East Africa Clitandra orienitalis is a valuable rubber vine. In
Lagos and elsewhere rubber is produced by the apocynaceous tree, Funtumia
elastica, and in West Africa generally by various species of Ficus, some
species of which are also found in East Africa. The rubber produced is
somewhat inferior to that of South America, but this is largely due to
careless methods of preparation. The great destruction of vines brought
about by native methods of collection much reduced the supply in some
districts, and rendered it necessary to take steps to preserve and
cultivate the rubber-yielding plants. This has been done in many districts
with usually encouraging results. Experiments have been made in the
introduction of South American rubber plants, but opinions differ as to the
prospects of success, as the plants in question seem to demand very
definite conditions of soil and climate. The second product, palm-oil, is
derived from a much more limited area than rubber, for although the oil
palm is found throughout the greater part of West Africa, from 10 deg. N.
to 10 deg. S., the great bulk of the export comes from the coast districts
at the head of the Gulf of Guinea. A larger supply, equal to any market
demand, could easily be obtained. A third valuable product is the timber
supplied by the forest regions, principally in West Africa. It includes
African teak or oak (Oldfieldia africana), excellent for shipbuilding; the
durable odum of the Gold Coast (Chlorophora excelsa); African mahogany
(Khaya senegalensis); ebony (Diospyros ebenum); camwood (Baphia nitida);
and many other ornamental and dye woods. The timber industry on the west
coast was long neglected, but since 1898 there have been large exports to
Europe. In parts of East Africa the Podocarpus milanjianus, a conifer, is
economically important. Valuable timber grows too in South Africa, including the yellow wood (Podocarpus), stinkwood (Ocotea), sneezewood or
Cape ebony (Euclea) and ironwood.
Other vegetable products of importance are: Gum arabic, obtained from
various species of acacia (especially A. senegal), the chief supplies of
which are obtained from Senegambia and the steppe regions of North Africa
(Kordofan, &c.); gum copal, a valuable resin produced by trees of the
leguminous order, the best, known as Zanzibar or Mozambique copal, coming
from the East African Trachylobium hornemannianum, and also found in a
fossil state under the soil; kola nuts, produced chiefly in the coast-lands
of Upper Guinea by a tree of the order Sterculiaceae (Kola acuminata);
archil or orchilla, a dye-yielding lichen (Rocella tinctoria and
triciformis) growing on trees and rocks in East Africa, the Congo basin,
&c.; cork, the bark of the cork oak, which flourishes in Algeria; and alfa, a grass used in paper manufacture (Machrochloa tenacissima), growing in
great abundance on the dry steppes of Algeria, Tripoli, &c. A product to
which attention has been paid in Angola is the Almeidina gum or resin, derived from the juice of Euphorbia tirucalli.
The cultivated products include those of the tropical and warm temperate
zones. Of the former, coffee is perhaps the most valuable indigenous plant.
It grows wild in many parts, the home of one species being in Kaffa and
other Galla countries south of Abyssinia, and of another in Liberia. The
Abyssinian coffee is equal to the best produced in any other part of the
world. Cultivation is, however, necessary to ensure the best results, and
attention has been given to this in various European colonies. Plantations
have been established in Angola, Nyasaland, German East Africa, Cameroon, the Congo Free State, &c.
Copra, the produce of the cocoa-nut palm, is supplied chiefly by Zanzibar
and neighbouring parts of the east coast. Groundnuts, produced by the
leguminous plant, Arachis hypogaea, are grown chiefly in West Africa, and
the largest export is from Senegal and the Gambia; while Bambarra ground-
nuts (Voandzeia subterranea) are very generally cultivated from Guinea to
Natal. Cloves are extensively grown on Zanzibar and Pemba islands, Pemba
being the chief source of the world's supply of cloves. The chief drawbacks
to the industry are the fluctuations of the yield of the trees, and the
risk of over-production in good seasons.
Cotton grows wild in many parts of tropical Africa, and is exported in
small quantities in the raw state; but the main export is from Egypt, which
comes third among the world's sources of supply of the article. It is also
cultivated in West Africa—the industry in the Guinea coast colonies having
been developed since the beginning of the 20th century—and in the Anglo-
Egyptian Sudan, whence came the plants from which Egyptian cotton is
grown. Sugar, which is the staple crop of Mauritius, and in a lesser degree
of Reunion, is also produced in Natal, Egypt, and, to a certain extent, in
Mozambique. Dates are grown in Tunisia and the Saharan oases, especially
Tafilet; maize in Egypt, South Africa and parts of the tropical zone; wheat
in Egypt, Algeria and the higher regions of Abyssinia; rice in Madagascar.
Wine is largely exported from Algeria, and in a much smaller quantity from
Cape Colony; fruit and vegetables from Algeria. Tobacco is widely grown on
a small scale, but, except perhaps from Algeria, has not become an
important article of export, though plantations have been established in
various tropical colonies. The cultivation of cocoa has proved successful
in the Gold Coast, Cameroon and other colonies, and in various districts
the tea plant is cultivated. Indigo, though not originally an African
product, has become naturalized and grows wild in many parts, while it is
also cultivated on a small scale. The main difficulty in the way of
tropical cultivation is the labour question, which has already been
referred to.
Of animal products one of the most important is ivory, the largest export
of which is from the Congo Free State. The diminution in the number of
elephants with the opening up of the remoter districts must in time cause a
falling-off in this export. Beeswax is obtained from various parts of the
interior of West Africa, and from Madagascar. Raw hides are exported in
large quantities from South Africa, as are also the wool and hair of the
merino sheep and Angora goat. Both hides and wool are also exported from
Algeria and Morocco, and hides from Abyssinia and Somaliland. Ostrich
feathers are produced chiefly by the ostrich farms of Cape Colony, but some
are also obtained from the steppes to the north of the Central Sudan. Live
stock, principally sheep, is exported from Algeria and cattle from Morocco.
The exploited minerals of Africa are confined to a few districts, the
resources of the continent in this respect being largely
Mineral Wealth.
undeveloped. Since the discovery of gold in the Transvaal, particularly in
the district known as the Rand (1885), the output has grown enormously, so
that in 1898 the output of gold from South Africa was greater than from any
other gold-field in the world. The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 lost the
Rand the leading position, but by 1905 the output—in that year over L.
20,800,000—was greater than it had ever been. The supply of gold from South
Africa is roughly 25% of the world's output. The gold-yielding formations
extend northwards through Rhodesia. The Gold Coast is so named from the
quantity of gold obtained there, and since the close of the 19th century
the industry has developed largely in the hands of Europeans. In the Galla
countries gold has long been an article of native commerce. It is also
found in various parts of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and along the western
shore of the Red Sea. Diamonds are found in large quantities in a series of
beds known as the Kimberley shales, the principal mines being at Kimberley,
Cape Colony. Diamonds are also found in Orange River Colony, while one of
the richest diamond mines in the world—the Premier—is situated in the
Transvaal near Pretoria. Some 80% of the world's production of diamonds
comes from South Africa. Copper is found in the west of Cape Colony, in
German South-West Africa, and in the Katanga country in the southern Congo
basin, where vast beds of copper ore exist. There are also extensive
deposits of copper in the Broken Hill district of Northern Rhodesia. It
also occurs in Morocco, Algeria, the Bahr-el-Ghazal, &c. Rich tin deposits
have been found in the southern Congo basin and in Northern Rhodesia. Iron
is found in Morocco, Algeria (whence there is an export trade), and is
widely diffused, and worked by the natives, in the tropical zone. But the
deposits aregenerally not rich. Coal is worked, principally for home
consumption, in Cape Colony, Natal, the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and
in Rhodesia in the neighbourhood of the Zambezi. Coal deposits also exist
in the German territory north of Lake Nyasa. Phosphates are exported from
Algeria and Tunisia. Of other minerals which occur, but are little worked, zinc, lead and antimony are found in Algeria, lead and manganese in Cape
Colony, plumbago in Sierra Leone.
The imports from foreign countries into Africa consist chiefly of
manufactured goods, varying in character according to the development of
the different countries in civilization. In Egypt, Algeria and South Africa
they include most of the necessaries and luxuries of civilized life, manufactured cotton and woollen goods, especially the former, taking the
first place, but various food stuffs, metal goods, coal and miscellaneous
articles being also included. In tropical Africa, and generally where few
Europeans have settled, the great bulk of the imports consists as a rule of
cotton goods, articles for which there is a constant native demand.
No continent has in the past been so lacking in means of communication as
Africa, and it was only in the last decade
Development of means of communication.
of the 19th century that decided steps were taken to remedy these defects.
The African rivers, with the exception of the middle Congo and its
affluents, and the middle course of the three other chief rivers, are
generally unfavourable to navigation, and throughout the tropical region
almost the sole routes have been native footpaths, admitting the passage of
a single file of porters, on whose heads all goods have been carried from
place to place. Certain of these native trade routes are, however, much
frequented, and lead for hundreds of miles from the coast to the interior.
In the desert regions of the north transport is by caravans of camels, and
in the south ox-wagons,before the advent of railways, supplied the general
means of locomotion. The native trade routes led generally from the centres
of greatest population or production to the seaports by the nearest route, but to this rule there was a striking exception. The dense forests of Upper
Guinea and the upper Congo proved a barrier which kept the peoples of the
Sudan from direct access to the sea, and from Timbuktu to Darfur the great
trade routes were either west to east or south to north across the Sahara.
The principal caravan routes across the desert lead from different points
in Morocco and Algeria to Timbuktu; from Tripoli to Timbuktu, Kano and
other great marts of the western and central Sudan; from Bengazi to Wadai;
and from Assiut on the Nile through the Great Oasis and the Libyan desert
to Darfur. South of the equator the principal long-established routes are
those from Loanda to the Lunda and Baluba countries; from Benguella via
Bihe to Urua and the upper Zambezi; from Mossamedes across the Kunene to
the upper Zambezi; and from Bagamoyo, opposite Zanzibar, to Tanganyika.
Many of the native routes have been superseded by the improved
communications introduced by Europeans in the utilization of waterways and
the construction of roads and railways. Steamers have been conveyed
overland in sections and launched on the interior waterways above the
obstructions to navigation. On the upper Nile and Albert Nyanza their
introduction was due to Sir S. Baker and General C. G. Gordon (1871-1876);
on the middle Congo and its affluents to Sir H.M. Stanley and the officials
of the Congo Free State, as well as to the Baptist missionaries on the
river; and on Lake Nyasa to the supporters of the Scottish mission. A small
vessel was launched on Victoria Nyanza 1896 by a British mercantile firm, and a British government steamer made its first trip in November 1900. On
the other great lakes and on most of the navigable rivers steamers were
plying regularly before the close of the 19th century. However, the
shallowness of the water in the Niger and Zambezi renders their navigation
possible only to light-draught steamers. Roads suitable for wheeled traffic
are few. The first attempt at road-making in Central Africa on a large
scale was that of Sir T. Fowell Buxton and Mr (afterwards Sir W.)
Mackinnon, who completed the first section of a track leading into the
interior fromDar-es-Salaam (1879). A still more important undertaking was
the ``Stevenson road,'' begun in 1881 from the head of Lake Nyasa to the
south end of Tanganyika, and constructed mainly at the expense of Mr James
Stevenson, a director of theAfrican Lakes Company—a company which helped
materially in the opening up of Nyasaland. The Stevenson road forms a link
in the ``Lakes route'' into the heart of the continent. In British East
Africa a road connecting Mombasa with Victoria Nyanza was completed in
1897, but has since been in great measure superseded by the railway. Good
roads have also been made in German East Africa and Cameroon and in
Madagascar.
Railways, the chief means of affording easy access to the interior of the
continent, were for many years after their first introduction to Africa
almost entirely confined to the extreme north and south (Egypt, Algeria,
Cape Colony and Natal). Apart from short lines in Senegal, Angola and at
Lourenco Marques, the rest of the continent was in 1890 without a railway
system. In Egypt the Alexandria and Cairo railway dates from 1855, while in
1877 the lines open reached about 1100 miles, and in 1890, in addition to
the lines traversing the delta, the Nile had been ascended to Assiut. In
Algeria the construction of an inter-provincial railway was decreed in
1857, but was still incomplete twenty years later, when the total length of
the lines open hardly exceeded 300 miles. Before 1890 an extension to Tunis
had been opened, while the plateau had been crossed by the lines to Ain
Sefra in the west and Biskra in the east. In Senegal the railway from Dakar
to St Louis had been commenced and completed during the 'eighties, while
the first section of the Senegal-Niger railway, that from Kayes to
Bafulabe, was also constructed during the same decade. In Cape Colony, where in about 1880 the railways were limited to the neighbourhood of Cape
Town, Port Elizabeth and East London, the next decade saw the completion of
the trunk-line from Cape Town to Kimberley, with a junction at De Aar with
that from Port Elizabeth. The northern frontier had, however, nowhere been
crossed. In Natal, also, the main line had not advanced beyond Ladysmith.
The settlement, c. 1890, of the main lines of the partition of the
continent was followed by many projects for the opening up of the
possessions and spheres of influence of the various powers by the building
of railways; several of these schemes being carried through in a
comparatively short time. The building of railways was undertaken by the
governments concerned, nearly all the African lines being state-owned. In
the Congo Free State a railway, which took some ten years to build, connecting the navigable waters of the lower and middle Congo, was
completed in 1898, while in 1906 the middle and upper courses of the river
were linked by the opening of a line past Stanley Falls. Thus the vast
basin of the Congo was rendered easily accessible to commercial enterprise.
In North Africa the Algerian and Tunisian railways were largely extended, and proposals were made for a great trunk-line from Tangier to Alexandria.
The railway from Ain Sefra was continued southward towards Tuat, the
project of a trans-Saharan line having occupied the attention of French
engineers since 1880. In French West Africa railway communication between
the upper Senegal and the upper Niger was completed in 1904; from the
Guinea coast at Konakry another line runs north-east to the upper Niger, while from Dahomey a third line goes to the Niger at Garu. In the British
colonies on the same coast the building of railways was begun in 1896. A
line to Kumasi was completed in 1903, and the line from Lagos to the lower
Niger had reached Illorin in 1908. Thence the railway was continued to the
Niger at Jebba. From Baro, a port on the lower Niger which can be reached
by steamers all the year round, another railway, begun in 1907, goes via
Bida, Zungeru and Zaria to Kano, a total distance of 400 miles. A line from
Jebba to Zungeru affords connexion with the Lagos railway.
But the greatest development of the railway systems was in the south and
east of the continent. In British East Africa a survey for a railway from
Mombasa to Victoria Nyanza was made in 1892. The first rails were laid in
1896 and the line reached the lake in December 1901. Meanwhile, there had
been a great extension of railways in South Africa. Lines from Cape Town,
Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban and Delagoa Bay all converged on the
newly risen city of Johannesburg, the centre of the Rand gold mines. A more
ambitious project was that identified with the name of Cecil Rhodes, namely, the extension northward of the railway from Kimberley with the
object of effecting a continuous railway connexion from Cape Town to Cairo.
The line from Kimberley reached Bulawayo in 1897. (Bulawayo is also reached
from Beira on the east coast by another line, completed in 1902, which goes
through Portuguese territory and Mashonaland.) The extension of the line
northward from Bulawayo was begun in 1899, the Zambezi being bridged, immediately below the Victoria Falls, in 1905. From this point the railway
goes north to the Katanga district of the Congo State. In the north of the
continent a step towards the completion of the Cape to Cairo route was
taken in the opening in 1899 of the railway from Wadi Haifa to Khartum. A
line of greater economic importance than the lastnamed is the railway
(completed in 1905) from Port Sudan on the Red Sea to the Nile a little
south of Berber, thus placing the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan within easy reach of
the markets of the world. A west to east connexion across the continent by
rail and steamer, from the mouth of the Congo to Port Sudan, was arranged
in 1906 when an agreement was entered into by the Congo and Sudan
governments for the building of a railway from Lado, on the Nile, to the
Congo frontier, there to meet a railway starting from the river Congo near
Stanley Falls. A railway of considerable importance is that from Jibuti in
the Gulf of Aden to Harrar, giving access to the markets of southern
Abyssinia.
Besides the railways mentioned there are several others of less
importance. Lines run from Loanda and other ports of Angola towards the
Congo State frontier, and from Tanga and Dar-es-Salaam on the coast of
German East Africa towards the great lakes. In British Central Africa a
railway connects Lake Nyasa with the navigable waters of the Shire, and
various lines have been built by the French in Madagascar.
All the main railways in South Africa, the lines in British West Africa, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and in Egypt south of Luxor are of 3 ft. 6 in.
gauge. The main lines in Lower Egypt and in Algeria and Tunisia are of 4
ft. 8 1/2 in. gauge. Elsewhere as in French West and British East Africa
the lines are of metre (3.28 ft.) gauge.
The telegraphic system of Africa is on the whole older than that of the
railways, the newer European possessions having in most cases been provided
with telegraph lines before railway projects had been set on foot. In
Algeria, Egypt and Cape Colony the systems date back to the middle of the
19th century, before the end of which the lines had in each country reached
some thousands of miles. In tropical Africa the systems of French West
Africa, where the line from Dakar to St Louis was begun in 1862, were the
first to be fully developed, lines having been carried from different
points on the coast of Senegal and Guinea towards the Niger, the main line
being prolonged north-west to Timbuktu, and west and south to the coast of
Dahomey. The route for a telegraph line to connect Timbuktu with Algeria
was surveyed in 1905. The Congo region is furnished with several
telegraphic systems, the longest going from the mouth of the river to Lake
Tanganyika. From Ujiji on the east coast of that lake there is telegraphic
communication via Tabora with Dar-es-Salaam and via Nyasa and Rhodesia with
Cape Town. The last-named line is the longest link in the trans-continental
line first suggested in 1876 by Sir (then Mr) Edwin Arnold and afterwards
taken up by Cecil Rhodes. The northern link from Egypt to Khartum has been
continued southward to Uganda, while another line connects Uganda with
Mombasa. At the principal seaports the inland systems are connected with
submarine cables which place Africa in telegraphic communication with the
rest of the world.
Numerous steamship lines run from Great Britain, Germany, France and
other countries to the African seaports, the journey from any place in
western Europe to any port on the African coast occupying, by the shortest
route, not more than three weeks. (E. HE., F. R. C.)
1 Further conferences respecting the liquor traffic in Africa were held
in Brussels in 1899 and 1906. In both instances conventions were signed by
the powers, raising the minimum duty on imported spirituous liquors.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—Authoritative works dealing with Africa as a whole in any
of its aspects are comparatively rare. Besides such volumes the following
list includes therefore books containing valuable information concerning
large or typical sections of the continent:—
sec. I. General Descriptions.—(a) Ancient and Medieval. Herodotus, ed. G.
Rawlinson, 4 vols.1 (1880); Ptolemy's Geographia, ed. C. Muller, vol. i.
(Paris, 1883-1901); Ibn Haukal, ``Description de l'Afrique (transl. McG. de
Slane), Nouv. Journal asiatique, 1842; Edrisi, ``Geographie'' (transl.
Jaubert), Rec. de voyages . . . Soc. De Geogr. vol. v. (Paris, 1836);
Abulfeda, Geographie (transl. Reinaud and Guyard, Paris, 1848-1883); M. A.
P.d'Avezac, Description de l'Afrique ancienne (Paris, 1845); L. de Marmol,
Description general de Africa (Granada, 1573); L. Sanuto, Geografia dell'
Africa (Venice, 1588); F. Pigafetta, A Report of the Kingdom of Congo, &c.
(1597); Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa (transl. J.
Pory, ed. R. Brown), 3 vols. (1896); O. Dapper, Naukeurige beschrijvinge
der afrikaensche gewesten, &c. (Amsterdam, 1668) (also English version by
Ogilvy, 1670, and French version, Amsterdam, 1686); B. Tellez, ``Travels of
the Jesuits in Ethiopia,'' A New Collection of Voyages, vol. vii. (1710);
G. A. Cavazzi da Montecuccolo, Istorica Descrittione de tre Regni Congo,
Matamba, et Angola (Milan, 1690) (account of the labours of the Capuchin
missionaries and their observations on the country and people); J. Barbot,
``Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea and of Ethiopia
Inferior,', Churchill's Voyages, vol. v. (1707); W. Bosman, A New . . .
Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea, &c., 2nd ed. (1721);
J. B. Labat, Nouvelle relation de l'Afrique occidentale, 5 vols. (Paris,
1728); Idem, Relation historique de l'Ethiopie occidentale, 5 vols. (Paris,
1732). (b) Modern. B. d'Anville, Memoire conc. les rivieres de l'interieur
de l'Afrique (Paris, n.d.); M. Vollkommer, Die Quellen B. d'Anville's fur
seine kritische Karte von Afrika Munich, 1904); C. Ritter, Die Erdkunde, i.
Theil, 1. Buch, ``Afrika'' (Berlin, 1822); l. M`Queen, Geographical and
Commercial View of Northern and Central Africa (Edinburgh, 1821 ); Idem,
Geographical Survey of Africa ( 1840); W. D. Cooley, Inner Africa laid open
(1852); E. Reclus, Nouvelle geographie universelle, vols. x.-xiii. (1885-
1888); A. H. Keane, Africa (in Stanford's Compendium), 2 vols., 2nd ed.
(1904-1907); F. Hahn and W. Sievers, Afrika, 2. Aufl. (Leipzig, 1901); M.
Fallex and A.Mairey, L'Afrique au debut du XXe siecle (Paris, 1906); Sir C.
P. Lucas, Historical Geography of the British Colonies, vols. iii. and iv.
(Oxford, 1894, 1904); F. D. and A. J. Herbertson, Descriptive Geographies
from Original Sources: Africa (1902); British Africa (The British Empire
Series, vol. ii., 1899); Journal of the African Society; Comite de
l'Afrique francaise, Bulletin, Paris; Mutteilungen der afrikan.
Gesellschaft in Deutschland (Berlin, 1879-1889); Mitteilungen . . . aus den
deutschen Schutzegebieten (Berlin); H. Schirmer, Le Sahara (Paris, 1893);
Mary H.Kingsley, West African Studies, 2nd ed. (1901); J. Bryce,
Impressions of South Africa (1897); Sir Harry Johnston, The Uganda
Protectorate, 2 vols. (1902) (vol ii. is devoted to anthropology); E. D.
Morel, Affairs of West Africa (1902).
sec. II. Geography (Physical), Geology, Climate, Flora and Fauna. — (For
Descriptive Geogr. see sec. I.)—G. Gurich, ``Uberblick uber den geolog. Bau
des afr. Kontinents,'' Peterm. Mitt., 1887; A. Knox, Notes on the Geology
of the Continent of Africa (1906) (includes a bibliography); L. von Hohnel,
A. Rosiwal, F. Toula and E. Suess, B eitrage zur geologischen Kenntniss des
omstlichcn Afrika (Vienna, 1891);
E. Stromer, Die Geologie der deutschen Schutzgebieten in Afrika (Munich,
1896); J. Chavanne, Afrika im Lichte uniserer Tage: Bodengestalt, &c.
(Vienna, 1881); F.Heidrich, ``Die mittlere Hohe Afrikas,'' Peterm. Mitt.,
1888; J. W. Gregory, The Great Rift-Valley (1896); H. G.Lyons, The
Physiography of the River Nile and its Basin (Cairo, 1906); S. Passarage,
Die Kalahari: Versuch einer physischgeogr. Darstellung . . . des sudafr.
Beckens (Berlin, 1904); Idem, ``Inselberglandschaften im tropischen
Afrika,'' Naturw. Wochenschrift, 1904. 654-665; J. E. S. Moore, The
Tanganyika, Problem (1903); W. H. Hudleston, ``On the Origin of the Marine
(Halolimnic) Fauna of Lake Tanganyika,'' Journ. Of Trans. Victoria Inst.,
1904, 300-351 (discusses the whole question of the geological history of
equatorial Africa); E.Stromer, ``Ist der Tanganyika ein Rellikten-See?''
Peterm. Mitt., 1901, 275-278; E. Kohlschutter, ``Die . . . Arbeiten der
Pendelexpedition . . . in Deutsch-Ost-Afrika,'' Verh. Deuts.
Geographentages Breslau, 1901, 133-153; J. Cornet, ``La geologie du bassin
du Congo,'' Bull. Soc. Beige geol., 1898; E. G. Ravenstein, ``The
Climatology of Africa'' (ten reports), Reports Brit. Association, 1892-
1901; Idem, ``Climatological Observations . . . I. Tropical Africa''
(1904); H. G. Lyons, ``On the Relations between Variations of Atmospheric
Pressure . . . and the Nile Flood,'' Proc. Roy. Soc., Ser. A, vol. lxxvi.,
1905; P. Reichard, ``Zur Frage der Austrocknung Afrikas,'' Geogr.
Zeitschrift, 1895; J. Hoffmann, ``Die tiefsten Temperaturen auf den
Hochlandern,'' &c., Peterm. Mitt., 1905; G. Fraunberger, ``Studien uber die
jahrlichen Niederschlagsmengen des afrik. Kontinents,'' Peterm. Mitt.,
1906; D. Oliver and Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Flora of) Tropical Africa, 10
vols. (1888-1906); K. Oschatz, Anordnung der Vegetation in Afrika
(Erlangen, 1900); A. Engler, Hochgebirgs-flora des tropischen Afrika
(Berlin, 1892); Idem, Die Pflanzenwelt Ostaftikras und der Nachbargebiete,
3 vols. (Berlin, 1895); Idem, Beitrage zur Flora von Afrika (Engler's
Botan. Jahrbucher, 14 vols. &c.); W. P. Hiern, Catalogue of the African
Plants Collected by Dr Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-1861, 2 vols. (1896-
1901); R. Schlechter, Westafrikanische Kautschuk-Expedition (Berlin, 1903);
H. Baum, Kunene-Sambesi-Expedition (Berlin, 1903) (largely concerned with
botany); W. L. Sclater, ``Geography of Mammals, No. iv. The Ethiopian
Region,'' Geog. Journal, March 1896; H. A. Bryden and others, Great and
Small Game of Africa (1899); F. C. Selous, African Nature Notes and
Reminiscences (1908); E. N. Buxton, Two African Trips: with Notes and
Suggestions on Big-Game Preservation in Africa (1902) (contains photographs
of living animals); G. Schillings, With Flash-light and Rifle in Equatorial
East Africa (1906); Idem, In Wildest Africa (1907) (striking collection of
photographs of living wild animals); Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie:
Histoire naturelle, 14 vols. and 4 atlases, Paris (1846-1850); Annales du
Musee du Congo: Botanique, Zoologie (Brussels, 1898, &c.). The latest
results of geographical research and a bibliography of current literature
are given in the Geographical Journal, published monthly by the Royal
Geographical Society.
sec. III. Ethnology.—H. Hartmann, Die Volker Afrikas (Leipzig, 1879); B.
Ankermann, ``Kulturkreise in Afrika,'' Zeit. f. Eth. vol. xxxvii. p. 34;
Idem, ``Uber den gegenwartigen Stand der Ethnographie der Sudhalfte
Afrikas,'' Arch. f. Anth. n.f. iv. p. 24;G.Sergi, Antropologia della stirpe
camitica (Turin, 1897); J. Deniker, ``Distribution geogr. et caracteres
physiques des Pygmees africains,'' La Geographie, Paris, vol. viii. pp. 213-
220; G. W. Stow and G. M. Theal, The Native Races of South Africa (1905);
K. Barthel, Volkerbewegungen auf der Sudhalfte des afrik. Kontinents
(Leipzig, 1893); A. B. Ellis, The Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast
(1887); Idem, The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast (1890); Idem, The
Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast (1894); H. Ling Roth, Great
Benin, its Customs, &c. (Halifax, 1903); H. Frobenius, Die Heiden-Neger des
agyptischen Sudan (Berlin, 1893); Herbert Spencer and D. Duncan,
Descriptive Sociology, vol. iv. African Races (1875); A. de Preville, Les
Societes africaines (Paris, 1894); D. Macdonald, Africana or, the Heart of
Heathen Africa, 2 vols. (1882); L. Frobenius, Der Ursprung der
afrikanischen Kulturen (Der Ursprung der Kultur, Band i.) (Berlin, 1898);
Idem, ``Die Masken und Geheimbunde Afrikas,'' Abhandl. Kaiserl. Leopoldin.-
Carolin. Deuts. Akad. Naturforscher, 1899, 1-278; G. Schweinfurth, Artes
africanae Illustrations and Descriptions of . . . industrial Arts, &c. (in
German and English) (Leipzig, 1875); F. Ratzel, Die afsikanischen Bogen . .
. eine anthrop. geographische Studie (Leipzig, 1891); K. Weule, . Der
afrikanische Pfeil (Leipzig, 1899); H. Frobenius, Afrikanische Bautypen
(Dauchau bei Munchen, 1894); H. Schurtz, Die afrikan. Gewerbe (Leipzig,
1900); E. W. Blyden, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (1887); James
Stewart, Dawn in the Dark Continent, or Africa and its Missions (Edinburgh
and London, 1903); W. H. J. Bleek, Comparative Grammar of South African
Languages, 2 parts (1862-1869); Idem, Vocabularies of the Districts of
Lourenzo Marques, &c., &c. (1900); R. N. Cust, Sketch of the Modern
Languages of Africa, 2 vols. (1993): F. W. Kolbe, A Language Study based on
Bantu (1888); J. T. Last, Polyglotta Africana orientalis (1885); J.
Torrend, Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Languages (1891);
S. W. Koelle, Polyglotta Africana (1854); C. Velten, Schilderungen der
Suaheli von Expeditionen v. Wissmanns, &c., &c. (1900) (narratives taken
down from the mouths of natives); A. Vierkandt, Volksgedichte im westlichen
Central-Afrika (Leipzig, 1895). For latest information the following
periodicals should be consulted:— Journal of the Anthropological Institute
of Great Britain and Ireland; Man (same publishers); Zeitschrift f.
Ethnologie; Archiv f. Anthropologie; L'Anthropologie.
sec. IV. Archaeology and Art.— Publications of the Egyptian Exploration
Fund; A. Mariette-Bey, The Monuments of Upper Egypt (1890); H. Brugsch, Die
Agyptologie (Leipzig, 1891); G. Maspero, L' Archeologie egyptienne (Paris,
1890?); R. Lepsius, Denkmaler aus Agypten und Athiopien . . ., 6 vols.
(Berlin, 1849-1859); G. A. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia . . . illustrating
the Antiquities of the Ancient Kingdom of Meroe (1835); Records of the
Past: being English Translations of . . . Egyptian Monuments, vols. 2, 4,
6, 8, 10, 12 (1873-1881); Ditto, new series, 6 vols. (1890-1892); D.
Randall-MacIver and A. Wilkin, Libyan Notes (1901) (archaeology and
ethnology of North Africa); G. Boissier, L'Afrique romaine Promenades
archeologiques en Algerie et en Tunisie, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1901); H. Randall-
MacIver, Mediaeval Rhodesia (1906); Prisse d'Avennes, Histoire de l'art
egyptien d'apres les monuments, &c. with atlas (Paris, 1879; G. Perrot and
C. Chipiez, History of Art in Ancient Egypt, 2 vols. (1993); H. Wallis,
Egyptian Ceramic Art (1900); C. H. Read and O. M. Dalton, Antiquities from
the City of Benin and from other parts of West Africa (1899).
sec. V. Travel and Exploration.—Dean W. Vincent, The Commerce and
Navigation of the Ancients, vol. 2, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
(1807); G. E. de Azurara, Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
(Eng. trans., 2 vols., 1896, 1899); R. H. Major, Life of Prince Henry the
Navigator (1868); E. G. Ravenstein, ``The Voyages of Diogo Cao and Barth.
Diaz,'' Geogr. Journ., Dec. 1900; O. Hartig, ``Altere Entdeckungsgeschichte
und Kartographie Afrikas,'' Mitt. Geogr. Gesells. Wien, 1905; J. Leyden and
H. Murray, Historical Account of Discoveries, &c., 2 vols., 2nd ed. (1818);
T. E. Bowditch, Account of the Discoveries of the Portuguese in the
Interior of Angola and Mozambique (1824); P. Paulitschke, Die geogr.
Forschung des afrikan. Continents (Vienna, 1880); A. Supan, ``Ein
Jahrhundert der Afrika-Forschung,'' Peterm. Mitt., 1888; R. Brown, The
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