Bushmen, just like their forefathers
Time: Lost Africa
Swift (in McNulty):
So geographers in Afric maps
With Savage pictures fill the gaps
And o'er uninhabitable downs
Placed elephants for want of towns
[Heart of Darkness] it is a parable w/Africans depicted as innately irrational and violent, and in which Africa itself is reduced to a metaphor for that which white Europeans fear within themselves. The people of Africa and the land they live in remain inscrutably alien, other. The title implies Africa is "heart of darkness," where whites who "go native" risk releasing the "savage" within themselves. - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe
Mungo Park: The Horror!
Mungo Park: The Hair!
Kaplan brings his nightmare spectacles to Clayton, U City and the CWEAt Victoria Falls, there will be another Buffalo; near the southern end of Tanganika will be a city as large as Detroit, one third of whose inhabitantswill be whites. Stanleyville, the present metropolis of the center of the Congo, will be a black St. Louis. On the shores of Lake Albert, there will be an African Cleveland. Khartoum will rival Memphis; and Cairo and Alexandria together will have the present population of New York. Somewhere in the highlands of Abyssinia, on the Blue Nile, there will have arisen the African Pittsburg; a black New orleans, somewhere about the Lower Niger, will be shipping palm oil to its prototype across the Atlantic. - Samuel P. Verner 1907, "Africa Fifty Years Hence." World's Work 13:8733 (Verner was business manager of Mission Board of So. Presbyterian Church)
