Africa

Totemism has a large place in Africa, being current in Senegambia, among the Bakali tribes upon the equator, upon the Ashanti Gold Coast, and among the Damara and the Bechuana in southern Africa, and in many places of that dark continent.

and that what is commonly held — the tracing of the Arabs to Ishmael and Qaḥṭān among the fathers of the Torah, and the descent of the tribes in the familiar form — is but a thing newly brought about, devised by men with ends to serve at a recent date not going back beyond the first century of the Hijrah, founded upon the register of the Imām ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in the matter of the Muslims' righ …

Among the things it is not well to pass over is that the Arabs cannot soundly be measured, in their circumstances and their genealogies, against the people of the totem among the savage nations — the Indians of Australia and America and the Negroes of Africa — because the Arabs are among the nations most advanced in mind and in soul, and are a people of an ancient civilisation like the civilisatio …

Is the white population of the world justified in converting to its own use the labour of Africa, on account of a superiority of intellect?

The Brazils, Cuba or Africa itself, would supply it with ample employment for the furor liberandi.

“And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the four-and-twentieth day of June, one thousand six hundred ninety-and-eight, it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the subjects of his majesty’s realms of England, as well as the said Company, to trade from England or any of his majesty’s plantations or colonies in America to the coast of Africa, between Blanco and Cape Mo …

“Whereas, the Trade to Africa is highly beneficial and advantageous to this kingdom and to the Plantations and Colonies thereunto belonging.

The act is entitled, “An Act to settle the Trade to Africa.

And I shall exhort you the more easily if I show that not only brave men have despised this moment of breathing out the soul, but that certain men, cowardly in other things, have in this matter equalled the spirit of the bravest—like that Scipio, the father-in-law of Gnaeus Pompey, who, carried back to Africa by a contrary wind, when he saw his own ship taken by the enemy, ran himself through with …

This saying made him equal to his ancestors and did not suffer the glory fated for the Scipios in Africa to be broken off.

let the loyalty of the men of Utica too, broken by misfortunes, give way, and let the fortune of his name desert Scipio in Africa.

But if they take thought for those who dwell, as it were, in a kind of great island which we call the orb of the earth, they take thought also for those who hold the parts of that island, Europe, Asia, Africa.

The moment that she began to trade with the foreigner, whether in Italy, Sicily, or Africa, she must have seen that her own Jus Civile was an impossible basis for trading relations.

It was during the reign of King John, in the year of our Lord 1477, at the time of the wars in Africa, that the Portuguese began to push their discoveries first into the more distant parts of the Ocean.

They say that it lies at the western extremity of Africa;

In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …

Infants were sacrificed to Saturn in Africa, openly, down to the proconsulship of Tiberius, who exposed the very priests upon the trees of his temple — those trees that overshadowed their crimes — on votive crosses, the soldiery of our own country being witness, which performed that very office for that proconsul.

But we find, even in the Commentaries on Human Antiquities, that the human race has gradually grown beyond measure, while the Aborigines, or wanderers, or exiles, or any glory-seekers occupy lands — as the Scythians occupied the Parthian lands, as the Temenidae the Peloponnese, as the Athenians Asia, as the Phrygians Italy and the Phoenicians Africa — while there are also solemn migrations, which …

The Scythians overflow the Persians, the Phoenicians belch forth into Africa, the Phrygians bring forth the Romans, the Chaldaean seed is brought up into Egypt;

Thus too your sister city near at hand was wont to clothe herself, and wherever else in Africa Tyre had set foot.

Those games — the contentious solemnities and superstitious contests of the Greeks, both of religions and of pleasures — with what favour the world celebrates them, has now become plain in Africa too.

But it would be impossible to say with even approximate precision how much benefit I have derived from the Anglo-German Convention in Africa, or from the Egyptian Occupation, or the Burmese War.