ABSTRACT
When primitive peoples have come into close contact with Western civilization, the consequence for them has frequently been either retrogression or destruction. Analogous conditions have resulted in earlier times from the clash of stronger with weaker peoples. In Africa men apparently of Negro race appear to have advanced in prehistoric times northwards into what is at present the Sahara, until they were forced back by light-coloured people. The population problem in Africa is most acute in the south, because the white race has made its home there beside the Natives. The African no longer leads a secluded existence, but shares in the life of humanity, and has to win his place in competition with other races. The European's position as a dominant power in Africa has been made easy by the fact that he was since his first arrival an object of admiration to the African.
