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My African Journey
Churchill, The Rt. Hon. Winston Spencer
Published by HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD, London, 1908
Churchill's African Journey. In the summer of 1907 Churchill left England for five months, making his way after working stops in southern Europe to Africa for "a tour of the east African domains." By now a seasoned and financially shrewd author, Churchill arranged to profit doubly from the trip, first by serializing articles in The Strand Magazine and then by publishing a book based substantially upon them. In November 1908 Hodder and Stoughton published My African Journey as a book, which was a substantial 10,000 words longer than the serialized articles. Uganda and its insectsChurchill s narrative portrayal of "The Kingdom of Uganda" is found at pages 86-103. When Churchill toured the country, Uganda had been a British protectorate for a decade and a half, since 1894. As might be expected, Churchill s discussion of Uganda is more nuanced than might be inferred from the quote he chose to append to his signature. In addition to citing its problems and plagues insect and otherwise - Churchill also wrote of Uganda with lyrical appreciation: "Uganda is a fairy-tale. You climb up a railway instead of a beanstalk, and at the end there is a wonderful new world. The scenery is different, the vegetation is different, the climate is different, and most of all, the people are different from anything elsewhere to be seen in the whole range of Africa." (p.86)Churchill s comment about the insects was an encapsulation of his broader observation about the negative physical and psychological effects of Uganda on its European inhabitants. More prophetic and prosaic, he noted "there seems to be a solemn veto placed upon the white man s permanent residence in these beautiful abodes." Uganda gained its formal independence on 9 October 1962, during the final years of Churchill s life and long parliamentary career, and notionally became a republic in 1963. Uganda has since struggled with depredations more severe than its insects, including civil strife, various flavors of autocracy, and AIDS. Reference: Cohen A27.4, Woods/ICS A12(ab), Langworth p.83 Fi.
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