Africa

The Last Journey of Mungo Park

Michael Langley describes how Park’s second journey of exploration down the River Niger was ended by his mysterious death at Bussa.

The Seychelles

First a French, then a British colony, these remote and beautiful islands are being gradually drawn into the modern world, writes J. Coen.

Livingstone’s Rhodesian Legacy

Many missionary hopes in Africa were disappointed, writes W.F. Rea, but Livingstone and his colleagues achieved some successes along the Zambezi river.

The Uganda Railway

For mixed motives, writes C.E. Hamshere, the construction of the British East African railway was begun in 1892,  to which the development of modern Kenya and Uganda is greatly indebted.

The Historical Roots of the Rhodesian Problem

Michael Langley writes that the enterprise of Rhodes and the creation of a white community in Central Africa were preceded by centuries of conflict between Europeans, Arabs and migrating Bantu.

The Portuguese in Southeast Africa

In the coastal regions of the modern colonies of Kenya and Tanganyika,  the Portuguese, first among Europeans, came into contact with the Arab-African civilization that flourished on the edges of the Indian Ocean.