THRICE THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT

With a map and 60 illustrations from photographs. Blue cloth covers. 344 pages. Frontispiece. Folding map at rear. Content bright, clean and clear.

Johannes du Plessis (1868–1935) was a South African theologian and Protestant missionary. Du Plessis is perhaps most remembered for helping lead an interracial coalition to push for reforms to empower black South Africans and lessen government discrimination in the early 1920s, such as by limiting the pass laws. He was ordained by the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, although relations between him and the DRC declined in his later life over his liberal and modernist theological views, culminating in an accusation of heresy and his dismissal as professor at the University of Stellenbosch.

An early African traveller in West Africa (Gold Coast, Nigeria, Kamerun), Central Africa (Belgian Congo), East Africa and Southern Africa. Chapters on South Kamerun, Ubangi, Lake Albert, British East Africa, Congo, Kasai and its tributaries, Katanga, northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.