The Negro by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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their own folk. They rule with their tongue and their power all Africa
south of the equator, save where the Europeans have entered. They have never been conquered, although the gold and diamond traders have sought to debauch them, and the ivory and rubber capitalists have cruelly wronged their weaker groups. They are the Africans with whom the world of to-morrow must reckon, just as the world of yesterday knew them to its cost. FOOTNOTES: [30] Quoted in Bent: _Ruined Cities of Mashonaland_, pp. 203 ff. [31] Cf. "Ethiopia Oriental," by J. Dos Santos, in Theal's _Records of South Africa_, Vol. VII. [32] Barbosa, quoted in Keane, II, 482. [33] It was called Sofala, from an Arabic word, and may be associated with the Ophir of Solomon. So, too, the river Sabi, a little off Sofala, may be associated with the name of the Queen of Sheba, whose lineage was supposed to be perpetuated in the powerful Monomotapa as well as the Abyssinians. VII THE WAR OF RACES AT LAND'S END Primitive man in Africa is found in the interior jungles and down at Land's End in South Africa. The Pygmy people in the jungles represent |
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