Tagged: Harry H. Johnston

“There is a strong underlying Negroid element in the mass of the Indian population [Sir Harry declares] and in the Southernmost part of the great peninsula there are forest tribes of dark skin and strikingly Negro physiognomy, with frizzled or wooly hair…In the more eastern among the Malay Islands — especially in Buru, Jilolo and Timor — the interior tribes are of obvious Negro stock. Still more marked is this in the case of New Guinea, and most of all in the Bismarck Archipelago and northern Solomon Islands. In these last the resemblance of the natives to the average Negro of Africa is most striking, although the distance is something like 8,000 miles. Negro affinities extend east of the Solomon Archipelago to Fiji and Hawaii, and south to New Caledonia, Tasmania and even New Zealand. On the other hand, Africa for many thousand years has been obviously the chief domain of the Negro.”

Source: John G. Jackson. Introduction To African Civilizations. pg. 227. 1970. (citing Sir Harry H. Johnston. A History Of The Colonization Of Africa. pg. 3.)

“Whether the African Negro was the first human colonizer of Africa or was preceded by a more brutish or more generalized type, such as the Galley-Hill man, is not yet known to us. But from the little we possess in the way of fossil human remains and other evidence it seems probably that every region of Africa, even Algeria and Egypt, once possessed a Negro population…In Egypt a dwarfish type of Negro seems to have inhabited the Nile delta some 10,000 years ago; and big black Negroes formed the population of Upper Nubia and Dongola as late as about 4,000 years ago.”

Source: John G. Jackson. Introduction To African Civilizations. pg. 226-227. 1970. (citing Sir Harry H. Johnston. A History Of The Colonization Of Africa. pg. 5.)