Turned away from the Sahara in 1907, Hilton-Simpson joined Emil Torday’s ethnographic expedition to the Kasai basin of the Congo. He describes the journey inland, the Batetela country, Bushongo villages and the court of their king, the Bankutu and the peoples of the great forest, their crafts, burials and customs, with the vocabulary and attitudes of an Edwardian traveller.
A valuable first-hand record of Central African societies before colonial change. Download the free EPUB.