Dawn in darkest Africa

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MUSHAMALENGI, “A ROYAL PRINCE” OF THE BAKUBA KINGDOM IN THE UPPER KASAI Frontispiece MAP OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AFRICAN COLONIES WITH “MOTHER COUNTRIES” DRAWN TO SAME SCALE at end of text West Africa, as some of us have known her, is rapidly changing. Within the memory of most men, there were deserts uncrossed, forests unexplored, tribes of people unknown. To-day every desert has been traversed; to-day we know not only the forests, but nearly every species of tree they contain; we know, and can locate, almost every African tribe, and almost every foot of territory has passed under the control, for the time being at least, of some alien Power.

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