Europeans in Africa: 1885-1924

[Christian]

I found this incredibly useful diagram in a book I just borrowed that has lots of pictures (like illustrations of houses!) and interesting information. The book is titled "Cultural Atlas of Africa", the ISBN is 0-8160-3813-9. I'm definitely going to invest in a copy of this. It looks like a good book for school assignments, too.

Anyway, on with the pic:

[Chairface]

30 years was all it took, eh? Good old Ethiopia was the only successful resistor. Very cool map. Thanks for sharing.

[Plynkes]

Liberia was independent too. Though technically it was a colony, but a colony of African-Americans rather than Europeans. Intended as a Utopia for freed slaves, the natives tended to regard the black American colonists as no different to white colonisers in neighbouring countries, unfortunately. But it wasn't subject to any other power (though it had close ties with the US), so that's something, I suppose.

[Christian]

There's several maps illustrative of things like languages and dialects, cultural groups etc. As well as about 500 words on each country with a nice close-up map for each. There's sections on art, religion, music, colonial occupation... not so much on warfare though.

I'm not sure if you guys have seen this before, but there are some Christian chapels in Ethiopia that are literally carved out of the ground. I saw them on television once, and again in this book:




Interesting you pointed that out about Liberia, Plynkes, it's in the book too (I checked just in case you were making it up ).

[Conquistador]

Truth is usually a whole lot stranger than fiction.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Mors]

I was recently thinking I needed a African atlas as a reference so thanks for posting this, might pop into my library and see if they have a copy to check before I buy. The new edition is quite a lot of money but the older editions are available from resellers on Amazon

[Chairface]

I'm not sure if you guys have seen this before, but there are some Christian chapels in Ethiopia that are literally carved out of the ground. I saw them on television once, and again in this book:

I've been wanting to go to Ethiopia since I found out about these on Cities of the Underworld. They look amazing.

[chicklewis]

Thanks for the tip, I just ordered a copy from bookfinder.com for $1.00 plus $2.63 shipping. 

When I was loose in Ethiopia in 1975, I NEARLY got to Lalibela to see the rock-hewn churches, but it was just too dangerous to get there by riding trucks, and the flights were too expensive for my vagabonding budget.  Lots of violent bandits in the hills were ambushing and stealing trucks.  I did pay-ride local trucks to see Addis Ababa, Blue Nile gorge, Lake Tana, Barhar Dar, Gondar, Axum, and Asmara, though.  Went nine days hard travel without seeing another white face, which is a record for me. 

[Christian]

Now that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting yarn!

Glad the book reference has been helpful. It doesn't have the cool illustrations of the era, but it has some interesting colour photography and good reference diagrams.

[Hammers]

There's several maps illustrative of things like languages and dialects, cultural groups etc. As well as about 500 words on each country with a nice close-up map for each. There's sections on art, religion, music, colonial occupation... not so much on warfare though.

I'm not sure if you guys have seen this before, but there are some Christian chapels in Ethiopia that are literally carved out of the ground. I saw them on television once, and again in this book:




Interesting you pointed that out about Liberia, Plynkes, it's in the book too (I checked just in case you were making it up ).

It is in one of these the Arc is supposed to rest, isn't it?

[Christian]

I'm not entirely sure about that! I borrowed another book about mysteries of Africa and the Middle East so I might plunge into that one, I think I saw the Arc mentioned somewhere!