Because we live in Africa, we
want to know about Africa and the people in it. They are men and
women and children like ourselves, though the colour of their skins
may be lighter or darker than ours, and their languages quite
different. But they, too, build houses and eat food and wear some
kind of dress, and it is interesting to know about their customs. So
in this book we shall read about some of them and of how they live;
and, to help us to understand, we shall find with each part a picture
of the people we are reading about. All the time we must remember
that we could get to see them for ourselves if we were strong enough
to walk so far, because they are all our own brothers and sisters in
Africa.
Long ago most African peoples were shut off from the other people of
the world by the sea and the great sandy desert. Only the people of
Egypt could meet and learn from the people of Europe and Asia. So
while the Egyptians grew wise and clever, all the other Africans,
south of the desert, knew nothing except what they had learnt by
themselves. Then Arabs began to cross the desert to get gold and
slaves from the dark-skinned Africans.
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