ECON 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Henry Morton Stanley, Mount Kilimanjaro, Johannes Rebmann

• School: McGill University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 208
• Professor: El- Attar Mayssun

Document Summary

Aim: to evaluate the utility and limitations of african source material. Why is africa different from other regions in this regard: there are less documents that refer to africans, they used oral traditions(no documents used) Early african arabian written sources: ethiopia-kebra nagast, jenn, macina, arawan & timbuku archives, national archives of tunisa, morocco, libya, algeria, egypt and turkey. Problems of early african written sources: most are written in arabic, most are not digitalized and easily accessible, africa has much fewer non-europeans documents and are poorly documented. Early european written sources: coastal ports, commercial rewards, www. slavevoyages. org. European explorer written sources examples: thomas edward bowditch(1817)was the rst to reach kumasi(used to be a city in. Ashanti; joseph dupuis(1820) to kumasi asante(present day ghana). Europeans stationed there often wrote diaries and reports of the surrounding regions. Addition to that there are lot of records about the price and goods, price of slaves: lydig krapp and johannes rebmann(1846) to mount kenya and mount kilimanjaro.