Equatorial Africa To-Day¹

Abstract

I HAVE seldom read a more interesting, easily assimilable, truthful book on modern Africa than this record of Mr. J. Du Plessis's recent journeys backwards and forwards across Equatorial Africa. Between 1913 and 1916 the mis sionary-author visited the Gold Coast and Ashanti, was on the outskirts of Dahomé, travelled through Lagos and Abeokuta to Hausa-land, up the Benue to the Shari, explored the western Cameroons, visited a great deal of Belgian and French Congoland, of Uganda and British East Africa, passed from Congoland through Northern Rhodesia, and revisited Nyasaland and the Mozambique coast.