Parfait-Louis Monteil
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Parfait-Louis Monteil was a French colonial military officer and explorer who made an epic journey in West Africa between 1890 and 1892, travelling east from Senegal to Lake Chad, and then north acros
French Fort of Bamako 1883
The conference of Berlin (1884–1885)
Colonial Saint Louis c. 1900. Europeans and Africans on the Rue Lebon.
Landscape between Dori and Yalgo
Chad Basin
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The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered approximately on Lake Chad. It has no outlet to the sea and contains large areas of semi-arid desert and savanna. The drainage basin i
Dunes in the Erg of Bilma.
Abéché, capital of Wadai, in 1918 after the French had acquired control.
People at a coronation in Chad, 2005.