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Africa and its exploration-Document-Gale Primary sources.pdf.pdf - 3 views

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    This article highlights the rise in African exploration following the penetration of east and Central parts of the continents by Europeans. It is said that vital exploration in central Africa only began with livingstone, part of explorers (in Africa) were Phoenician navigators employed by Necho with a desire to uncover the mystery and form behind the "Dark Continent". Additionally, records of African exploration gave rise to numerous debates and controversies as an increase in exploration both in voyages and explorers resulted in a strange interest in the continent that attracted outside curiosity.
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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thursday 8 July 1880, page 7 - 2 views

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      mokhele_l on 25 Apr 23
       
      This newspaper article makes reference to the Belgium expedition in central Africa driven by curiosity.
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Explorations-David-Livingstone.jpg (1555×1600) - 5 views

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      mokhele_l on 24 Apr 23
       
      This map shows the patterns of exploration in southern, western and northern parts of Africa by livingstone from the year 1841 to 1866.
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Images of Exploration in Africa: the Art of James Augustus Grant on the Nile Expedition... - 9 views

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  • The history of discovery and exploration affords many examples of travellers who have returned from locations previously unknown to their compatriots at home finding that interest and wonder in their exploits is accompanied by doubt or mistrust concerning the stories they have to tell.
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      mokhele_l on 18 Apr 23
       
      This article draws to exploration in Africa through the images of previous scholars/ African explorers. Through these images, it is evident that in some cases, European exploration of South and East Africa is invalid- In cases of misinterpretation and false representation, African exploration shifted from a pursuit of knowledge to issues of subjective publications.
  • The period of the Enlightenment, in fact, saw expectations of truthfulness become more demanding:
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      mokhele_l on 18 Apr 23
       
      the age that emphasized truth and science over superstition. African exploration in this period was meant to reveal accurate information.
  • There was an obvious danger of distortion through misunderstanding or a deliberate desire to increase the appeal and interest of a scene
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      mokhele_l on 18 Apr 23
       
      Historically, African exploration resulted in distortion as an attempt to achieve euphoria or a lack of understanding.
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  • There was an obvious danger of distortion through misunderstanding or a deliberate desire to increase the appeal and interest of a scen
  • Perhaps he interpreted Livingstone's description as best he could but perhaps, too, he inserted elements which he knew would appeal to the public
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      mokhele_l on 18 Apr 23
       
      Central to African exploration was interpretation and representation.
  • problems of misrepresentation by no means disappear. Scenes are staged, people are dressed specially or put in what are taken to be appropriate surroundings.
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      mokhele_l on 18 Apr 23
       
      with reference to the last 2 points, manipulated representation acted a tool of a distorted euphoria.
  • what nineteenth-century European explorers had to say about non-European areas and peoples they had encountered tended to be taken at face value because it had come to be believed that explorers no longer told tall stories but were detached and scientific.
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      mokhele_l on 18 Apr 23
       
      European exploration of Africa was primarily on surface level. The intention wasn't knowledge b through experience but simply providing an interesting read.
  • and images from travellers' accounts was to be relied upon
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European Exploration and Africa's Self-Discovery.pdf - 8 views

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  • Africa was indeed a dark continent, in the sense of being relatively unknown outside it
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      mokhele_l on 13 Apr 23
       
      European exploration was sparked by european desire to know about a somewhat "Unknown" part of the world.
  • whistle: his instruments are all borrowed from one coast people.' Ogot asks whether this kind of reporting by the explorers really helped Europe to know Africa better. Indee
  • nding of African cultures, he wanted to understand in order to change. The first anthropologists, by contrast, wanted to understand in order to pres
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  • Exploration itself can be due to a passionate interest in Africans. It has been suggested that David Livingstone was perhaps 'the one explorer who may be said to have lived and died for Africans rather than for Af
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      mokhele_l on 13 Apr 23
       
      European exploration was driven by interest in Africans and their practices, This interest also manifested in the representation of Africans as barbaric people- European interest in Africans may have been a tool of an academic paradigm of difference.
  • . The first anthropologists, by contrast, wanted to understand in order to pres
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      mokhele_l on 13 Apr 23
       
      A different motive in European exploration was understanding Africa and Africans and preserving knowledge and culture.
  • The discoveries of the anthropologists helped to correct some of the myths-to which the physical explorer had lent greater credibilityabout an Africa steeped in savagery. The anthropological researchers came to provide a different kind of inform
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      mokhele_l on 13 Apr 23
       
      Exploration as a tool of dissolution of previously established myths on Africa.
  • cience.2 But another strong influence on the explorers, besides the scientific spirit, was the European romantic movement, associated with the spirit of anti-scie
  • ience.2 But another strong influence on the explorers, besides the scientific spirit, was the European romantic movement, associated with the spirit of anti-scie
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      mokhele_l on 13 Apr 23
       
      Europeans in Africa aimed at spreading the european idea of Euphoria- modernization and civilization.
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Africa and Its Exploration - Document - Gale Primary Sources - 21 views

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    The correct form of this same document has been posted (as will be seen by the title). I was however,unable to delete this one.
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