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A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

Chapter 1: THE COLONIZATION OF AFRICA
By Harry Johnston
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The work surveys successive external influences on the African continent from prehistoric migrations through ancient Mediterranean settlements, Islamic expansions, and later European imperial ventures. It traces patterns of settlement, trade, and administrative change introduced by Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Arab, and later colonial arrivals, and discusses racial and population movements, including coastal and island colonizations. Chapters combine narrative history with maps and chapter-end notes to illustrate political boundaries and areas of racial mixing. The text explains how successive waves of external contact reshaped local polities, economies, and administrative systems across different regions of the continent.

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Title: A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

Author: Harry Johnston

Release date: April 16, 2025 [eBook #75882]

Language: English

Original publication: Cambridge: University Press, 1913

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Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes have been collected at the end of each chapter, and are linked for ease of reference.

The various maps of Africa employ a color coding to denote political and racial areas. They have been yellowed by age, and have been brightened here to allow for better legibility, but are probably a poor approximation of their original appearance. They rely on a blending of tints to show where racial mixing occurred. The reader’s indulgence is requested. Each map serves as a link to a larger map that may be viewed in greater detail.

The maps have been moved to fall on the nearest paragraph break.

Errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any issues encountered during its preparation.

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Cambridge Historical Series
EDITED BY G. W. PROTHERO, F.B.A., Litt.D.
HON. LL.D. OF EDINBURGH AND HARVARD, AND HONORARY FELLOW
OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

THE

COLONIZATION OF AFRICA

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
London: FETTER LANE, E.C.
C. F. CLAY, Manager
Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET
Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO.
Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS
New York: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
All rights reserved
A HISTORY OF THE
COLONIZATION OF AFRICA
BY ALIEN RACES
BY
SIR HARRY H. JOHNSTON, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.,
Hon. Sc.D. Cantab.
WITH EIGHT MAPS
NEW EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT AND
CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913
First Edition 1899.      Reprinted 1899, 1905.
Second and enlarged Edition 1913.