Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858 1927) was an explorer, colonial
administrator and main participant in the British expansion in
Africa, along with his friend Cecil Rhodes. Johnston published
several accounts of his expeditions, as well as surveying native
languages and culture. This text is Johnston's fictionalised
account of the life of a slave, based on anecdotes he gathered on
his travels. The protagonist describes his early life as the
warrior son of the village chief in a brutal society where
cannibalism and allegations of witchcraft were commonplace. When
slavers attacked his village and captured him, 'Abu' faced a long
journey across the country, survived by few, before serving a
succession of masters. A vivid and eventful history of one man's
survival through escape attempts, attacks by wild animals and
relentless violence, which Johnston described as his attempt to
give 'a realistic sketch of life in the Western Sudan'.
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