There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today.

By relating an ancient instance of white colonization in a dark subcontinent, it confirmed the colonial worldview.

This mighty sub-continent with all kinds of inhabitants has been brought under a plan which is titanic, unknown, unparalleled. And what is very important with regards to it is that we have achieved it peacefully and by means of an evolution of the greatest possible character.

The most explicit statement of immigration into the Subcontinent.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.