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The Mozambique and Apassa Slave Trade.pdf - 3 views

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    This primary source by O'Neill shows how there was a great link between slavery and the ivory trade, "the slave trade and ivory are hand and glove" (O'Neill, 1885: 13). The speaker says an increase in the ivory trade due to the number of slaves brought down to Mozambique.
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French Equatorial Africa 1950-1959, Mines. Mining: Carbon. Graphite: Petroleum. Oil - D... - 4 views

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  • he Embassy Is rallably informed that during the campaign of -cj ; core drilling in the Douala area of French Camaroons by "Soclatt S 1 de Recherches at d» Exploitation das Patrolea du Cameroun" (SEREPCA) natural gas was found In substantial quantitlas In the most recent^J drill test. r- a,la 1952, fourteen stratigraphic core holes ware drilled In ^ | the Losbaba district near Douala with a Pranks portable drilling ^ U rig. Depths ranged from 300 to 1200 meters.
  • Oil Exploration in the French Cameroon,Consul Robert G. MCGREGOR and Vice Consul William J. DREW while on tour of the French Cameroon, were invited by SEREPCA officials^/ on a conducted tour of the latest oil field in the French Cameroon.
  • Exploration was first undertaken in the Cameroon at Bassa, a few miles south-' east of Douala. The office buildings are located near this site. These surveys and drillings (number not known) were completed in the early part of 1953#
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  • here was great interest concerning this oil field among government officials and at least one bank president, M. Jean LELANNE, (the Banque Afrique Occidentale).,The geologist, Mr. KEDAISKA, who speaks English and who said he had worked for ARAMCO in the Near East ventured the opinion that the stratigraphic column appeared similar to the Sprawberry of West Texas in 1945. Surveys so far have led him to believe that there is a stratigraphic relationship to the first field explored in Bassa and possibly to that at Port Gentil in the Gabon near which drillings are being carried on by the other subsidiary, SPAEF
  • here was great interest concerning this oil field among government officials and at least one bank president, M. Jean LELANNE, (the Banque Afrique Occidentale).
  • the rig was moved to a location about 50 kilo-^,meters to the west of the Wouri River from Douala.
  • The geologist, Mr. KEDAISKA, who speaks English and who said he had worked for ARAMCO in the Near East ventured the opinion that the stratigraphic column appeared similar to the Sprawberry of West Texas in 1945. Surveys so far have led him to believe that there is a stratigraphic relationship to the first field explored in Bassa and possibly to that at Port Gentil in the Gabon near which drillings are being carried on by the other subsidiary, SPAEF.
  • The new field of exploration, determined by seismic survey, is a rectangle two miles long, runpjlng east-west and one and six-tenths miles wide, running north-south (Magnetic North)
  • s located in the forest approximately two miles SWW from Bomona Village which is 18 miles by road from Bonaberi, a town on the Wouri River opposite Douala.
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  • Drilling has been conducted since early 1953 and during a part of August in spite of the heavy rains but was forced to a halt during the months of September and part of October.,
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    Exploration in Africa
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Hermann Habenicht's Spezialkarte von Afrika - A Unique Cartographic Record of African E... - 1 views

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  • A new orientation of European exploration and mapping developed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In 1876, Léopold II, king of Belgium, organized a conference in Brussels at which representatives from Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia addressed two issues that were of concern to the leading powers at the time, the coordination of future exploration in equatorial Africa, and the suppression of the slave trade in that region
  • Léopold II seized the opportunity of this conference to found the Association Internationale Africaine (AIA) with the objective of establishing scientific exploration stations from coast to coast, starting in the east.
  • The transformation of the AIA into the Comité d’Etudes du Haut-Congo in 1878, which in 1882 became the even more powerful Association Internationale du Congo (AIC), was observed with growing concern and even suspicion by other European powers
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  • This marked the beginning of a new era of European involvement in Africa, and in Central Africa in particular.
  • However, the emphasis shifted towards territorial consolidation, which absorbed much of the exploratory effort of the involved nations since the 1880s.
  • Léopold’s ambitions were clear: as the sovereign of the smallest of the European states reaching out to Africa, he wanted to acquire a large territory that would give him international status among the other nations, at the same time allowing him to secure access to a vast reservoir of natural resources.
  • When Britain occupied Egypt in 1882, European interest in other parts of the continent grew, and the so-called “scramble for Africa” began in earnest. While Britain, France, and Portugal could build on and branch out from territories they had already established under their flag, Germany lagged behind in the race but acted vigorously to catch up.
  • Larger-scale regional maps were now needed — and were produced in profusion across Europe, to substantiate, both administratively and commercially, the consolidation of newly acquired European possessions.
  • As the market for up-to-date maps grew in the European nations engaged in colonizing Africa, so did the cartographic output by geographical establishments and societies.
  • They all published a plethora of more or less detailed maps of the continent and its constituent parts in order to illustrate and document the latest results of African exploration and the colonizing campaigns they supported, complementing the output of established suppliers of maps.
  • Two important events, one political, the other historical, are of relevance to our subject here.
  • reports that a plan to produce a large map of Africa was formulated towards the end of 1884,
  • The choice of Africa rather than other parts of the globe offered itself on account of the incredibly rich body of maps, travel, and exploration documentation that Perthes could still draw upon, and Africa ranked particularly high as a subject of interest in this time of heated colonial contest.
  • At least half of all the maps published in the PGM in the 1880s were of Africa, and the 1885 volume contained even more maps on Africa than on all other parts of the world together (eleven against eight, not counting thematic and general maps). 1
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africa-exploration-granger - 3 views

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Precis of Information Concerning the Zulu Country, with a Map - Document - Gale Primary... - 2 views

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    By Harrison and Sons - Precis of Information Concerning the Zulu Country, with a Map
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Portuguese possession on the East coast of Africa on Nyasa-Tanganyika expedition Ivory... - 2 views

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    the renewal of missionary enterprise and colonization was directed towards the shire highlands and the lake Nyasa Malawi in 1875 and succeeding years. the ruling Mokololo caste maintained itself in affluence by the large royalty. it levied on the ELEPHANY IVORY obtained in the country by native and European hunters. The English elephant hunters began to object to having to pay huge portion for the ivory they had obtained. The Europeans had been to various parts of the interior to trade in ivory and their potters. Jumbe as one of the salve owners, his great source of wealth was in the large quantity of ivory brought by his men, and in the magnificent crops of rice that Malawi produces, which is farmed far wide in Nyasaland . Malawi is perhaps the richest tract of land in natural resources on the shores of lake Nyasa , there is gold in the rocks and in the river beds. Elephants and the ivory is of very good quality. in late Nyasa, the slaves and the ivory gradually became attracted towards the countries out the end of lake Nyasa.
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Rise and Fall of the Zulu Power.pdf - 1 views

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    In 1879, the British fought a war against the Zulu kingdom. The Zulus resisted bravely and were only defeated a series of particularly bloody battles that have gone down in the annals of colonial warfare.
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    For centuries Ivory or the material of elephant tusks was one of the most sought after luxury items from Africa.A brisk ivory trade developed centuries ago. By the1980s elephants had been hunted nearly to extinction, this image shows elephant tusks or i can say ivory material in Zanzibar ready to be transported. Despite vigorous trade in other regions, East Africa remained the world's chief supplier of ivory. Business flourished in Zanzibar and Mozambique ,where merchants exported tusks to Western India and other markets. Even though Ivory trade was linked to slavery trade Africa,when in ended in 1800 however did not bring an end to the ivory trade rather flourished because it was the only source of money and also developed other trades such as Cattle trade in 19th century since people were introduced to farming and agriculture.
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Imperial Strategy and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.pdf - 5 views

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  • On 22 January 1879, the British army suffered its worst colonial defeat of the nineteenth century when 1,500 men armed with the most modern weapons then available were wiped out at the battle of Isandlwana by a Zulu army—an impi—of 25,000 warriors armed only with spears. That an army of this size had slipped past British reconnaissance on the open veldt of South Africa to mount such a successful attack was remarkable in itself, but a second battle on that same day at a small mission station named Rorke's Drift made these events more remarkable still. Here, 120 men decided to stand and fight rather than flee the advancing impi that had just wiped out their comrades. At bayonet point, they fought a last-round defense against 4,000 Zulu warriors which earned them a victory and eleven Victoria Crosses—the highest number of the highest award for bravery ever bestowed on a single day in British military history. In 1964, this remarkable battle was immor talized in Cy Enderfield's classic film Zulu which, among other things, provided Michael Caine with his first screen role and generated an interest in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 which has sca
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