The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
7. AIC phase I
The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
John C. Wilkinson [+]
The University of Oxford, (Retired)
John C. Wilkinson, D.Litt, is a former Reader at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 1997.
He has advised several governments in the Middle East on their frontier disputes, including as Counsel for Bahrain in Qatar vs Bahrain, the longest running case to have appeared before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He is author of numerous articles and several books, notably: Water and Tribal Settlement in South-East Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1977), The Imamate Tradition of Oman (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Arabia's Frontiers (I.B. Tauris, 1991), A Fatal Duel: “Harry Alis” (1857-95), a behind the scenes figure of the early Third Republic (Antony Rowe, 2006) and Ibâdism: Origins and early development in Oman (Oxford University Press, 2010).
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Chapter contents: Origins: The Association Internationale Africaine (AIA); The First AIA Expedition; Leopold and Stanley; Further AIA Expeditions; Relations with the Arabs; AIA expeditions and sovereignty in Eastern Africa; The Congo; Stanley and de Brazza; Stanley’s move up the Congo; Andrew Bennie; Tippo-Tib’s return; The situation at Falls; The emergence of an Arab policy; The eviction of the EIC from Falls; Tippo-Tib’s Position; The EIC’s desertion of Falls; Effects; The Arab Zone