...non-Negro ideas and institutions, King Askia, who ruled over Songhai in the early part of the sixteenth century, was certainly the equal of the average European...and the superior of many of them. Among the Bantu people of South Africa, eg, the Zulus, etc., great capacity for survival by means of political and...

...such as Engornu (in Bornu) and Timbuktu, etc., with their from 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants; Kanain Haussa-land, etc. Barth, the German traveler, who...ultimate creation of a Christian Negro nation at some time in the future. One of the Bantu peoples, the Ovampo, has already proceeded so far along the road...

...such as Engornu (in Bornu) and Timbuktu, etc., with their from 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants; Kanain Haussa-land, etc. Barth, the German traveler, who...ultimate creation of a Christian Negro nation at some time in the future. One of the Bantu peoples, the Ovampo, has already proceeded so far along the road...

...and Egypt. Askia is described as the greatest sovereign who ever ruled over Negro-land and that he "was certainly the equal of the average European monarchs of the time and the superior of many of them;" he also has been referred to as "perhaps the greatest monarch that ever ruled in the Western Sudan."...