This gallery of images of African slavery and the slave trade includes pictures of indigenous and European slave trade.
On 31 May 1910 the Union of South Africa was formed under British dominion. It was exactly eight years after the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, which had brought the Second Anglo-Boer War to an end.
In 1795 The Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa appointed Mungo Park to explore the course of the River Niger - it had been believed that the Niger was a tributary of either the river Senegal or Gambia until Major Daniel Houghton, an Irish soldier who had explored west Africa from a base at Goree, on behalf of the Association, discovered it flowed from West to East. Park set out on 22 MAy 1895.
The Association wanted proof of the river's course and to know where it finally emerged. Three current theories were: that it emptied into Lake Chad, that it curved round in a large arc to join the River Zaire, or that it reached the coast at the Oil Rivers.
Find out more about the life of Scots explorer Mungo Park.
"In Nyasaland we mean to be masters, and if this is treasonable, make the most of it."
Hastings Kamuzu Banda, first president of Malawi, as quoted in Neil Hamilton's Founders of Modern Nations, California, 1995.
"They say my people love me and I would be naïve to deny it."
Hastings Kamuzu Banda, first president of Malawi, as quoted in David Lamb's The Africans, New York, 1985.
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