The Voice of Africa

Abstract

The investigation of ancient civilizations and the existence of an ancient cultured nation on the West Coast of Africa occupied the first portion of this work. We will now proceed to the actual Interior and it will be my endeavour to supply material for properly judging the so-called Soudan and the state of its culture. The Arabs gave this country the name of "the Soudan." It means and is the land of the blacks, and thus these first words demonstrate the influence of the people who brought the religion of the Prophet into the Continent, a religion which, as many believe, introduced the higher civilization to "poor negroes" and gave them the opportunity of higher development! The Arab, who first pronounced the word «Soudan," i.e., the black's country, must have come from the North.