Talk:Bundu (state)

Biased & old colonial viewpoint

I added the Template:Update because the information taken from the Bondu article in Wikisource's 1911 Encyclopædia Brittanica (which comprises nearly all of this article) shouldn't be taken at its word. Though by 1911 the French had achieved military control over the region and though they had engaged in significant ethnographic research, they didn't control everything all the time, and they didn't record everything with a goal of representing the authentic voice of the indigenous populations. Where the French and other African colonizing powers wanted to find territorial boundaries, indigenous people may have seen lands mutually occupied or perpetually changing, or two groups might have had different perceptions of the boundary area. Boundary flux existed at any single moment, but also over time. The map from abbé Boilat is a wonderful historical work, but it was derived from limited information, shouldn't be taken as more than a perception at a particular time, and should have text encouraging that. See also the Wikisource disclaimer for the 1911 EB. Triplingual (talk) 16:44, 22 April 2017 (UTC)