ABSTRACT
In these days when man’s technological triumphs over the physical world are taken for granted, when the spectacular probings into space and lunar exploration-mark you, adventures barely fifteen years old yet —are ceasing to excite awe, curiosity, and inspiration, the mapping of the world in general and of the African continent in particular, in the centuries before we were born, might seem a minor and transient event in a human drama unworthy of academic minds.
