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.