Wednesday 14th May 2014
Journey through Africa - Part 1
Peter Drake
Today’s speaker was Peter Drake who gave an audio visual presentation on "An African Journey" which is the first of 3 talks he is scheduled to give to the club during the next year.
Today was from The Cape to Zimbabwe. He described it’s history and of how Africa has always been a target for slavery and showed maps of how the continent was perceived in the early days. The white man’s diseases and greed were ever present and conflict was inevitable with the Zulu tribes across this vast area. The Dutch were pushed north away from British taxes and he described the often disastrous attacks by the army against the tribes with many casualties.
The talk ended in Zimbabwe and will continue north next time he comes in autumn.