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The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the scramble for Africa

David L. Lewis

Lewis, David L.;

The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the scramble for Africa

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987 / 1988 (paper 304 pages)

ISBN 155584278X

topics: |  africa | history | 19th-c | colonialism


A historical examination of the 1896 march by Captain Jean-Baptist Marchand
and his 150 Senegalese soldiers across Africa to the fort at Fashoda and the
defensive measures the Africans used to block the Europeans.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009