People of Africa E-Book

Edith A. How

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Now we will think about the other two tribes who live in this country, but who are of quite a different race from the others. These little red and black Pigmy peoples do not have villages at all. They are all hunters, and each man wanders with his wife and children wherever he chooses. Then, near the village of some chief of another tribe, he collects grass and sticks, and builds a little house which is too small for an ordinary man to stand upright inside. The Pigmy people are not so dark-skinned as the other races of Central Africa, and they are very small, not so high as an ordinary man's shoulder.

Leseprobe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. INTRODUCTION

II. EGYPT

III. THE SAHARA, THE GREAT SANDY DESERT

IV. UGANDA, AN AFRICAN KINGDOM

V. THE PEOPLE OF THE CONGO

VI. THE MINE-WORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA

VII. THE GREAT FARMS OF SOUTH AFRICA

VIII. CONCLUSION

PEOPLE OF AFRICA

By

Edith A. HOW

WITH SIX COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

1921

People Of Africa By Edith A. How

© David De Angelis 2017 [all rights reserved]

PREFACE

It is hoped that this book and its companion volume dealing with non-African peoples will be the beginning of a series of simple, readable accounts for Africans of some of the various objects of general interest in the world of to-day. There are many such works published for the use of English and American children. But the native African has a totally different experience of life, and much that is taken for granted by a child of a Northern civilized land needs explanation to one used to tropical uncivilized surroundings. Again, the African knows the essential operations of everyday life in their simplest form, whereas the European knows them disguised by an elaborate industrial system. All this makes books written for English children almost unintelligible to a member of a primitive race. These two volumes are far from perfect, but it has been difficult to know always how to select wisely from the mass of material at hand. They will have served, however, a useful purpose if they form a basis for adaptations into the various African vernaculars, and afford an inspiration for other works of a similar nature. Thanks are due to Miss K. Nixon Smith, of the Universities Mission to Central Africa, for her kindness in criticizing the MSS. from her long experience of the African outlook.

EDITH A. HOW

June, 1920.