A Whiteman's Burden. Edited with Annotations and an Afterword by Rob Couteau
Charles Beadle
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A Whiteman's Burden. Edited with Annotations and an Afterword by Rob Couteau

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Although it's been widely documented in scientific writing, few works of literary fiction deal with the sleeping sickness epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Africans at the turn of the century. One notable exception is Charles Beadle's A Whiteman's Burden, published in 1912, when trypanosomiasis was still claiming so many lives in Uganda and the Congo: sites of his numerous expeditions. Beadle traveled through the most infected areas in the early 1900s - at the very peak of the catastrophe - when Uganda lost a quarter of a million inhabitants and the number of infected Congolese had...