![Detail from “Femmes Indigènes Attendant l’Overture du Marché à Nyangwé” [Indigenous Women Attending the Opening of the Market at Nyangwé]. In Oscar Michaux, Au Congo, Carnet de Campagne: Épisodes & Impressions de 1889 à 1897 (Namur: Librairie Dupagne-Counet, 1913), opposite 305. Public domain. Image copyright Adrian S. Wisnicki. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).](images/Wisnicki_Figure_4.4.jpg "Detail from “Femmes Indigènes Attendant l’Overture du Marché à Nyangwé” [Indigenous Women Attending the Opening of the Market at Nyangwé]. In Oscar Michaux, Au Congo, Carnet de Campagne: Épisodes & Impressions de 1889 à 1897 (Namur: Librairie Dupagne-Counet, 1913), opposite 305. Public domain. Image copyright Adrian S. Wisnicki. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).")
People and Groups Cited in the Book
Fieldwork of Empire spans the Victorian era (1840–1900) and gives extended attention to select regions across the African continent. In doing so, the book discusses a number of significant individuals, communities, and groups.
African and Arab Figures of Note
Sechele, Sebituane, Sayyid Said, Muhammad Ali, Kamrasi, Mutesa, Tippu Tip, Mtagamoyo, Mwini Dugumbi
African Ethnic Groups
Makololo (Southern Africa), Nyamwezi (East Africa), Banyoro (North Central Africa), Baganda (North Central Africa), Luba (West Central Africa), Lega (Central Africa), Wagenya (Central Africa), groups of the Upper Congo River (Northwest Central Africa)
African Regional Groups
Portuguese settlers (Southeast and Southwest Africa), Zanzibari Arabs, Turco-Egyptian slave traders, the Force Publique of the Congo
British Writers
David Livingstone, Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel White Baker, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Joseph Conrad