Trouble in Africa.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 7, 10 November 1888, Page 3

Trouble in Africa.

{From tho W*ekly ChronitU.) The experiment of converting Africa to civilisation by force cannot be said to be eutii A y suoiossf ill A recent dia-

patch from Zanzibar tell* of an attack of the natives on a German colony, and their renunciation of their allegiance to the Saltan of Zanzibar, on the ground that he had no right to transfer them and their country to a foreign power. The Germane have been expelled from all of their stations on the coast but two and there 'they are living a sort of hand-to-mouth existence, being protected by the guns of German men-of-war. In'the meantime, while these disturbances are going onj trade is rained and failures are imminent. The tribes are dun-ending upon the coast in great uumberK,and nothing seems to prevent a war of extermination except that the natives are badly armed. Perhaps>it will turn out that the methods of Livingstone und Stanley are bettor for the conversion of the h«athen of Africa than the gospel ofc the needle?uu and mitrailleuse. Certainly the taliana and the Germans, who have tried to conquer Africa by arras, have not succeeded very well thus far; and even in Algeria, which is almost as much European as African, Frauce has held her control by a very doubtful and uneertaintsiiure. C

If Africa is to be civilized and chri.jtiauieud, it must bo by degrees. The force of precept and example must be brought *o bear, and the native African must be educated to receive civilization, fur all attempts to thrust it upon him at trio point of the bayonet must result in ignominious failure.