The panel will deal with "cartographic encounters" and the transfer of spatial knowledge on the eve of the Scramble for Africa and in the early decades of colonial rule. To what extent were the European maps produced in the late nineteenth century derived from the spatial knowledge of Africans? And how did the mutual exchange of spatial information affect perceptions of space in Africa?
The Repetition of the Question Mark on the Map . Justus
Perthes Geographical Institute and the Cartographic Visualization of Africa in
the 19th Century
