ABSTRACT
In Negro Africa man was his own beast of burden. In tsetse infested areas most domestic animals could not survive, and even in areas where cattle did survive they were not trained for transport or draught. In North-West Africa, as in North Africa. the ass, the horse, the camel, and possibly the ox, were used as beasts of burden. Horse-drawn chariots may have traversed the Sahara in prehistoric times, but in historic times, except during the Roman era in North Africa. wheeled transport, if not unknown, seems to have been unused until the advent of Europeans.1
