CHAPTER XVIII

CONCLUSIONS AND FORECASTS

The European partition of Africa—Only Liberia and Abyssinia remain independent—Three classes into which Africa falls from colonization standpoint—Healthy Africa—Yellow Africa—Black Africa—Prognostications as to future race movements—Predominant European races in the future—The eight great languages of New Africa—Paganism will disappear—Muhammadan zeal will eventually decay—The Negro may become identified in national interests with his diverse European rulers, and not unite to form a universal Negro nation with the cry of ‘Africa for the Africans,’ if he is well treated—White nations may also arise in Africa—Yet future of Africa remains very uncertain 442

APPENDIX I. Notable events and dates in the history of African colonization 452

APPENDIX II. Bibliography 467

INDEX 472

LIST OF MAPS

1. Africa as known to the Ancients; showing distribution of native races and lines of Bantu invasion _To face_ p. 50

2. Muhammadan Africa _To face_ p. 74

3. Portuguese Africa _To face_ p. 114

4. French Africa _To face_ p. 238

5. British Africa _To face_ p. 388

6. German Africa _To face_ p. 422

7. Colonizable Africa _At end_

8. Political Africa, 1912 _At end_

_Note._ The spelling of African names adopted throughout this book is the system sanctioned by the Royal Geographical Society, by which all consonants are pronounced as in English and all vowels as in Italian. Ñ, ñ represents the nasal sound of ‘ng’ in ‘ri_ng_i_ng_,’ ‘so_ng_,’ as distinguished from the ‘ng’ in ‘a_ng_er.’ No consonants are doubled unless pronounced twice in succession: thus ‘Massowah’ is properly written Masawa. But where old established custom has sanctioned a spelling diverging from these rules the official spelling of the name is adopted. Thus: Moçambique instead of Msambiki; Quelimane instead of Kelimān; Uganda as well as the more correct Buganda; Bonny instead of Obani.

ERRATUM

p. 306, last line, _for_ Truster _read_ Truter, _and similarly in Index_