...This chapter focuses on the issues of technology and labor in colonial East and Central Africa, examining imaginary events relevant to the colonization of East and Central Africa, focusing on the vampire metaphor. It explains that these vampires were the firemen in East Africa and game rangers...

... of Bantu languages and cultures Color red white black symbolism Lemba Lower Zaire cult of affliction Nguni language and peoples Xhosa people South Africa Zebola cult of affliction in Equateur N Zaire and Kinshasa Metaphor ngoma Central Africa Southern Africa African religious therapeutic...

... European explorers central Africa Congo Free State Pogge Weismann land of friendship children of hemp Lulua Baluba Kasai A country called El Dorado fired the imagination of Spaniards invading the New World. European travelers to Africa had their driving myths in King Solomon's mines, the Christian...

... in Central Africa, provides a new view of those early European explorers and their encounters with Africans. It shows that explorers were far from rational—often meeting their hosts in extraordinary states influenced by opiates, alcohol, sex, fever, fatigue, and violence. The book presents little-known...

...What travel meant when scientific explorers began producing knowledge about vast regions such as central Africa merits close attention, especially in view of the imminent danger of disembodied postcolonial theorizing. This chapter gives an account of the course this project has taken. It took years...

... of central Africa. Arabs Swahili Becker Jérôme Congo Free State Contradictions Explorers Bastian Adolf Becker A C Borna Buchner Max Coquilhat Camille François Curt von Friendship German Southwest Africa Hemingway Ernest Herero Kuba Pogge Paul Rotberg Robert I Schütt Otto Sedar Senghor...