PEOPLE OF AFRICA
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by Edith A. How, B.A.

Universities' Mission to Central Africa

With Six Coloured Illustrations

LONDON
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

New York: The Macmillan Co.

1921

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PREFACE

It is hoped that this book and its companion volume dealing with
non-African peoples will be the beginning of a series of simple,
readable accounts for Africans of some of the various objects of
general interest in the world of to-day. There are many such works
published for the use of English and American children. But the
native African has a totally different experience of life, and much
that is taken for granted by a child of a Northern civilized land
needs explanation to one used to tropical uncivilized surroundings.
Again, the African knows the essential operations of everyday life in
their simplest form, whereas the European knows them disguised by an
elaborate industrial system. All this makes books written for English