African influences on European Mapping of Africa. The case of Louis-Gustave Binger’s Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le Pays de Kong et le Mossi (1:1,000,000)
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for African Studies
- Location
- 108 Coble Hall
- Date
- Oct 26, 2022 12:00 pm
- Speaker
- Prof Tom Bassett (Professor Emeritus, UIUC)
- Contact
- Terri Gitler
- tgitler@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-265-5016
- Views
- 88
- Originating Calendar
- Center for African studies - Outreach Calendar
Focusing on an 1890 map of the upper Niger River region, this talk proposes that significant African agency was involved when Europeans like Gustave Binger (1856-1936) made maps of Africa. Europeans relied on African geographic knowledge and this knowledge was parceled out selectively.
This event will take place in person at 108 Coble Hall and via Zoom.
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