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This book-ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent-takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa's tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about the continent and its peoples.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities
1. Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa
2. Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos
3. Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa
4. Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism
5. The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari
6. Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through “Roots” Tourism
7. Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa
Study Guide and Selected Readings
Notes
Index
About the author
Todd Cleveland is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Arkansas. His books include these Ohio University Press titles:
Sports in Africa, Past and Present (2020),
Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949-1975 (2017),
Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-1975 (2015), and
Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds (2014).
Summary
This book—ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent—takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about the continent and its peoples.
