Introduction -- Preface -- Going out -- Founding a mission -- On trek -- The first three years -- The Bura language -- Down the Benue -- Civilizing agencies -- Mohammedanism in Nigeria -- A primitive ...
In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...
The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, visiting Kilwa in 1331, described it as one of the most beautiful and well-built cities he had ever seen (Ibn Battuta, 1929). By the 1400s, when Vasco da Gama ...
AFRICAN JOURNEY — Eslanda Goode Robeson — John Day ($3.50). “Ah, no, my dear,” said the anthropology professors at London University to Eslanda Robeson, leftist wife of Singer Paul Robeson. She had ...
There was a time—and it was not so long ago—when the first word in a standard English-Swahili phrase book was “boy” (meaning an African of any age), and one of the first sentences to be mastered was, ...