The fortress of Fashoda is on an obscure junction of the Nile, but from 1870 onwards, because of its strategic position and the rise of European colonialism, it became the subject of conflict between the rival Western powers of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. This is an account of those struggles based largely on unpublished documents and told from the perspective of the Africans themselves. It also aims to show how this conflict led to the African people's first battles for their independence and fostered the political tensions that helped to cause World War I.
- ISBN10 0747501130
- ISBN13 9780747501138
- Publish Date 25 February 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English