Heart of Darkness with The Congo Diary (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1995), p. 58.
Notes – 1 The World behind the Fog
1 . Eric Axelson, Congo to Cape: Early Portuguese Explorers (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), p. 84.
2 . Ibid., p. 87.
3 . Ibid., p. 85.
4 . Phillip D. Curtin, The Image of Africa (Madison, WI, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973), vol. 1, p. 94.
5 . See P. I. Hoogenhout, ‘An Abbe and an Administrator’, in SWA Annual 21 (1965), pp. 24–5.
6 . F. Williams, Precolonial Communities of Southwestern Africa: A History of Owambo Kingdoms 1600–1920 (Windhoek: National Archives of Namibia, 1991), pp. 30–5; P. Hayes and D. Haipinge (eds), ‘Healing the Land’: Kaulinge’s History of Kwanyama (Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, 1997).
7 . The matrilineal Lele people of the Congo (Kinshasa) also worship the deity called Njambi.
8 . B. Lau, Namibia in Jonker Afrikaner’s Time (Windhoek: National Archives of Namibia, 1987).
9 . Oral history interviews with various Nama elders (NAN, NiD/NaDS Accession), some of which are published in C. W. Erichsen, What the Elders Used to Say (Windhoek: Namibia Institute for Democracy, 2008).
10 . Namibia in Jonker Afrikaner’s Time .
11 . Ibid.
12 . B. Lau (ed.), Charles John Andersson: Trade and Politics in Central Namibia 1860–1864 (Windhoek: National Archives of Namibia, 1989); idem (ed.), Carl Hugo Hahn: Tagebuecher 1837–1860 (Windhoek: National Archives of Namibia, 1984).
Notes – 2 The Iron Chancellor and the Guano King
1 . The Times , 27 August 1884.
2 . Journals of the London Mission Society (Schmelen, 1819), Cape Archives, Cape Town.
3 . J. C. G. Röhl, From Bismarck to Hitler: Problems and Perspectives in History (London: Longmans, 1970), p. 61.
4 . Helmuth Stoecker (ed.), Bernard Zöller (trans.), German Imperialism in Africa: From the Beginnings until the Second World War (London: Hurst, 1986), p. 18.
5 . Ibid., p. 31.
6 . Hans Ulrich Wehler, ‘Bismarck’s Imperialism’, Past and Present 48 (1991), p. 129.
7 . Ibid., p. 269.
8 . The Times , 25 June 1888.
9 . The Times , 16 September 1885.
10 . The London Globe , 11 December 1884. Quoted in Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, ‘Domestic Origins of Germany’s Colonial Expansion under Bismarck’, Past and Present 42 (1969), p. 127.
11 . Woodruff D. Smith, The German Colonial Empire (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1978), p. 30.
12 . Stoecker, German Imperialism , p. 31.
13 . H. Drechsler, Let Us Die Fighting (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1986), p. 23.
14 . Prosser Gifford and William Roger Louis, Britain and Germany in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1967), p. 68.
15 . Mary Evelyn Townsend, The Rise and Fall of Germany’s Colonial Empire 1884–1918 (New York: Macmillan, 1930), p. 129.
Notes – 3 ‘This Is My Land’
1 . H. Vedder, ‘Was Dr Göring vor 55 Jahren in Okahandja erlebte’, in Afrikanischer Heimatskalender (Windhoek, 1940), pp. 33–5; O. Hintrager, Suedwestafrika in der deutschen Zeit (Munich: Kommissionsverlag, 1955); Anonymous, ‘Dr Göring, Heinrich Ernst’, in W. J. DeKock (ed.), Dictionary of South African Biography , vol. 1 (Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel for the National Council for Social Research, 1968); H. E. Göring, ‘Anfang in Deutsch-Suedwest’, in W. von Langdorff, Deutsche Flagge ueber Sand un Palmen (Guetersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1936), pp. 29–40.
2 . National Archives of Namibia (NAN), Heinrich Göring , ‘Allerhöchste Vollmacht fuer den Kommissar in dem suedwestafrikanischen Schitzgeniete Dr. Jur. Heinrich Ernst Göring’.
3 . G. Pool, Samuel Maharero (Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, 1991), pp. 38–43.
4 . Göring, ‘Anfang’, pp. 32, 35, 37. In the last week of September, Göring and his colleagues had similarly dressed up to meet the chief of Otjimbingwe; Vedder, ‘Was Dr Göring’.
5 . A. Heywood and E. Maasdorp (eds), The Hendrik Witbooi