Tag Archives: Africa

Israel – The Last of the Settler Colonies

Posted on 16/08/2014 by J.F. Gjersø

Rewind the clock more or less than a century and you will find a world teeming with settler colonies engaged in battle with ‘unruly natives.’ Today only one remains; Israel is the last of a dying breed, the last of … Continue reading →

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Vice-Consul Haggard’s Report

Posted on 21/12/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

Sir John Kirk, the British Consul to the Sultan of Zanzibar, received in 1884 a report from his Vice-Consul John G. (Jack) Haggard. The brother of Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard  had summarised his adventurous journey from his station on … Continue reading →

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Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

Posted on 16/11/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

A year after the great African explorer Dr David Livingstone’s death in 1873, his friend Horace Waller published an edited version of his diaries. In his introduction to ‘The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to … Continue reading →

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An East African Israel

Posted on 30/06/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

In 1903, during the premiership of Arthur Balfour (later the author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917), the British government offered a territory of 5,000 square miles on the Uasin Gishu (Gwas Ngishu) plateau in the British East Africa Protectorate to the World … Continue reading →

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