African explorer Mungo Park is a Scottish explorer who pioneered exploration into the Niger River in West Africa. Mungo Park is a 23-year-old Scottish surgeon who just came back from Sumatra from a ship from East India Company. So he discovered six kinds of fish and posted commentary in scientific journals. In 1795 Parker went to Pisina and proposed to further study Africa. Parker accepted that serious fever broke him in his trip.
At the beginning of the 19th century Europe's understanding of inland geography in sub-Saharan Africa remained very limited. Since the exploration of South Africa took place in the 1930s and 1840s, when the colonies contested Africa in the mid-nineteenth century, undeveloped areas were currently limited to the Congo Basin and the Great Lakes of Africa. This "center of Africa" is one of the last "blank places" remaining on the world map in the second half of the 19th century (Arctic, Antarctic, and the Amazon Basin). It was reserved for 19th century European explorers, including those seeking to complete the source of Nile, in particular John Hanning Spikk, Sir Richard Burton, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. In the 1870s Africa Adventure of
In the late 19th century. European explorers explore Africa and are studying occupations, departments and resources within the territory of Africa (Morgan, 2008). When they discovered that Africa has abundant environmental resources, they invaded Africa and dominated the majority of the area. The reason is that they felt that Africa was very competent and that African people could not use it. It had many negative effects on the African continent, such as tribal war, poverty and hunger, death, political turmoil, and many other devastating events. At this point, I believe that slavery affects Africans one way. In other words, it makes Africa and the African poor. In this article we will explore two aspects (positive and negative) from a philosophical point of view to judge the reality of slave trade across the Atlantic in the continent of Africa.