A geographical and commercial view of northern Central Africa: containing a particular account of the course and termination of the great river Niger in the Atlantic ocean.

"Trade and commerce of northern Central Africa": p. [209]-288.

An account of the empire of Morocco, and the district of Suse; compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journeys through, those countries. To which is added an account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of central Africa.

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824,

The appendix, 112 p. at end, contains: no. I-XVI. Translations from the Arabic, of various letters and documents, brought from Bornou and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton. By A. Salame.--no. XVII-XX. Bornu, Bengharmi, Mandara, and Timbuctoo vocabularies.--XXI. Zoology.--XXII. Botanical appendix. By Robert Brown.--XXIII. Letter to Major Denham, on the rock specimens ... by Charles Konig.--XXV. Thermometrical journal kept at Kouka in Bornou.

The black journey ; across Central Africa with the Citroën Expedition /

Illustrated lining-papers.

The lives and travels of Livingstone and Stanley, covering their entire career in Southern and Central Africa. Carefully prepared from the most authentic sources.

Issued also under title: The life and labors of David Livingstone.

The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude,

Appendix to chapter XIII "Anthropology," and to chapter XIV "Pygmies and forest negroes," by Dr. F. Shrubsall.

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H. B. M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855.

An abridged edition.

Central Africa : Adventures and missionary labors in several countries in the interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The historic geographical atlas of the middle and modern ages. : A series of maps and plans, chronologically arranged, delineating the migrations of the German and Asiatic nation, and the rise and fall of all the states, kingdoms, and empires, founded by them in Europe, western Asia, northern Africa, and America, from the fall of the western Roman empire, to the abdication of Napoleon. With special maps illustrative of English history. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The heart of Africa. Three years' travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871.

Mode of access: Internet.

The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions,

Paged continuously.

Livingstonia, its origin : an account of the establishment of that mission in British Central Africa

Mode of access: Internet.

Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC

[No abstract as this is a book chapter: the following represents the first 2 paragraphs.] The screen fills with close-ups of smiling African faces against a black-and-orange background: the carefree child, the gap-toothed man with smoke curling from his pipe. The faces retreat into an outline of a map of Africa as the saccharine background music dissolves into birdsong. The silhouette of an acacia tree appears. This is not the much-derided Western romantic stereotype of the continent: it is an extract from a promotional trailer on CCTV Africa, the embodiment of China’s “soft power” drive and a spearhead of Chinese state television’s overseas expansion. Yet this image is at variance with the English-language channel’s professed ambitions. The Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, himself declared that “CCTV embraces the vision of seeing Africa from an African perspective and reporting Africa from the viewpoint of Africa”. These contradictory messages prompt fundamental questions about CCTV’s expansion into Africa. Are the channel’s English-language news bulletins aimed at African or Chinese viewers? What kind of Africa – and indeed China – do they represent, and could the framing of African events by CCTV News provide an alternative to the perspective of international rivals? Is CCTV’s main mission in Africa to provide news or to act as mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party and state? This chapter addresses these questions by applying a cross-cultural variant of framing theory to the news content of CCTV’s Africa Live and that of its closest direct competitor, Focus on Africa from BBC World News TV.

Stay-green Drought Adaptation Trait Enhances Sorghum Production in Sub-tropical Australia, Central-Western India and Sub-Saharan Africa

Drought during grain filling is a common challenge for sorghum production in north-eastern Australia, central-western India, and sub-Saharan Africa. We show that the stay-green drought adaptation trait enhances sorghum grain yield under post-anthesis drought in these three regions. A positive relationship between stay-green and yield was generally found in breeding trials in north-eastern Australia that sampled 1668 unique hybrid combinations and 23 environments. Physiological studies in Australia also found that introgressing four individual stay-green (Stg1–4) quantitative trait loci (QTLs) into a senescent background reduced water demand before flowering and hence increased water supply during grain filling, resulting in higher grain yield relative to the senescent control. Studies in India found that various Stg QTLs affected both transpiration and transpiration efficiency, although these effects depended on the interaction between genetic background (S35 and R16) and individual QTLs. The yield variation unexplained by harvest index was related to transpiration efficiency in S35 (R2 = 0.29) and R16 (R2 = 0.72), and was related to total water extracted in S35 (R2 = 0.41) but not in R16. Finally, sixty-eight stay-green enriched lines were evaluated in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2013/14 season. Analysis of the data from Kenya indicates that stay-green and grain size were positively correlated at two sites: Kiboko (high yielding, r2=0.25) and Masongaleni (low yielding, r2=0.37). Together, these studies suggest that stay-green is a beneficial trait for sorghum production in the semi-arid tropics and is a consequence of traits altering the plant water budget.

Africa.

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by shading.