The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
3. The early Arab penetration into the African mainland
The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
John C. Wilkinson [+]
The University of Oxford, (Retired)
John C. Wilkinson, D.Litt, is a former Reader at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 1997.
He has advised several governments in the Middle East on their frontier disputes, including as Counsel for Bahrain in Qatar vs Bahrain, the longest running case to have appeared before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He is author of numerous articles and several books, notably: Water and Tribal Settlement in South-East Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1977), The Imamate Tradition of Oman (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Arabia's Frontiers (I.B. Tauris, 1991), A Fatal Duel: “Harry Alis” (1857-95), a behind the scenes figure of the early Third Republic (Antony Rowe, 2006) and Ibâdism: Origins and early development in Oman (Oxford University Press, 2010).
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Chapter contents: The central corridor; The Nyamwezi; The area South-West of Lake Tanganyika: The Arab disaster; Uganda; Tabora; The double crossing of Africa by an Arab party; Members of the expedition; Sa‘îd b. Habib al-‘Afîfi’s early expeditions; Identifications; Ujiji; The Congo pioneers; Mughayri’s introduction; Jum’a Merikani; The drive to the frontier: Ivory; The Omani Manyema expedition; The Expedition; Commentary: The historical facts; Locations and African identifications; Nyangwe and the Kabambare route: The Ujijian horde; The Nyangwe massacre; Mohara’s expedition; Kibonge and Kirundu; Conclusion; The dating of the expedition