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TRAVELOGUE     –     1928 Madeleine Poulaine's travel in the Congo in 1928 is a forerunner of a modern holiday in Africa, i.e., enjoyable and bearing no similarities with the arduous journeys depicted by earlier travellers. Mrs Poulaine sailed the Congo River on well equipped steamers, sojourned in confortable accommodation and "charming bush dwellings", relied on long-term residents to smooth her journey and made full use of her "Kodak". The redeeming feature of this over glamourous sketch, replete with lion and buffalo hunts, is the author's unabated positive outlook that contrasts sharply with common cliches and negative stereotyping usually associated with the Continent.

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jmv - 2006