The People of Eastern Equatorial Africa

Eslanda Robeson’s transnational anti-imperialist activism brought her into contact with most of the women examined in this study. This chapter therefore takes a broader geographic view of black women’s decolonial politics by analyzing Robeson’s travel journals chronicling her journeys through Southern Africa in 1936 and French Equatorial Africa in 1946. Her Global South project displaces subjection to imperial rule as the imagined connection among the people of Africa, Asia and the Americas. She envisions the Global South as defined by concerted acts of resistance against imperialism, and highlights women’s roles in leading or carrying out these acts of resistance.

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1. Exhibition of Three Skulls of the Gorilla, received from M. Du Chaillu, with Observations relative to their Anatomical Features

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s0370164600040840 ◽

1866 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 341-350

Author(s):

Burt ◽

W. Turner

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

British Museum ◽

Anatomical Features ◽

Equatorial Africa ◽

The People ◽

Short Time

After placing on the table a series of three crania of the gorilla (Troglodytes gorilla), which he had a short time ago received from M. Du Chaillu, Dr Burt proceeded to relate to the Society several facts, recently come to light, in support of various of the statements of that traveller which had been called in question. He alluded to the doubts which had been cast on several of the statements of M. Du Chaillu, and to the uncourteous treatment he had received at the hands of some of his detractors, and enumerated some of the proofs since produced by that gentleman, which are now to be found in the British Museum, and in the possession of men of distinction in science, illustrative of the natural history and the habits of the people of Equatorial Africa, which confirmed the veracity of that gentleman's observations. The last letters received from M. Du Chaillu were written from Fernand Vaz previous to his departure for the interior.

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