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A F R I C A I N W O R L D H A HISTORY OF I S TOURISM IN T O AFRICA R Y Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment Todd Cleveland A History of Tourism in Africa Africa in World History SERIES EDITORS: TODD CLEVELAND, DAVID ROBINSON, AND ELIZABETH SCHMIDT James C. McCann Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine Peter Alegi African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game Todd Cleveland Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds Laura Lee P. Huttenbach The Boy Is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General John M. Mugane The Story of Swahili Colleen E. Kriger Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast Jared Staller Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 15091670 – Todd Cleveland A History of Tourism in Africa: Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment A History of Tourism in Africa Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment Todd Cleveland OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Athens 45701 Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio ohioswallow.com 2021 © by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department 740 593 1154 740 593 4536 at ( ) - or ( ) - (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ™ 3130292827262524232221 54321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Cleveland, Todd, author. Title: A history of tourism in Africa : exoticization, exploitation, and enrichment / Todd Cleveland. Other titles: Africa in world history. 2021 Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, . | Series: Africa in world history | Includes bibliographical references and index. 2020036863 2020036864 Identifiers: LCCN (print) | LCCN (ebook) | 9780821424339 9780821447253 ISBN (paperback) | ISBN (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Tourism—Africa—History. | Culture and tourism—Africa—History. 155 26 542021 155 26 Classification: LCC G .A C (print) | LCC G .A (ebook) | 3384791604 23 DDC . —dc 2020036863 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/ 2020036864 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/ To Joe Miller, who guided me on so many of my travels through Africa’s past CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities ONE Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa 20 TWO Hunting in Africa 37 Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos THREE Profits and Propaganda 62 Tourism in Colonial Africa FOUR Paradoxes of Independence Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism 86 FIVE The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari 110 SIX Going Home 130 The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through “Roots” Tourism SEVEN Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa 152 177 Study Guide and Selected Readings 183 Notes 199 Index vii ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 11 25 . The Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt 21 . Specimens from Roosevelt’s African safari in the National 51 Museum of Natural History 31 2005 7 . The Victoria Falls Hotel, c. 6 32 . Martin and Osa Johnson on the Kenya and Uganda Railroad 1925 in Nairobi, 69 41 . Tourism at the Mantenga Cultural Village, featuring local 95 performers and foreign tourists 51 111 . Safari lodge, just outside Etosha National Park, in Namibia 52 2017 118 . An American child on safari in Eswatini, 61 132 . Elmina Castle, Ghana Maps 1 I. Africa xii 11 27 . Egypt and Sudan 21 43 . Southern Africa 22 47 . European Colonial Empires in Africa ix
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