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Indri Debono was the first white man in recorded history to have discovered the fountainhead - the source of the Nile! He never bothered to record this exceptional discovery and we only know of it through the memoirs of Speke; the man credited with the feat. In 1862 Indri reached the Ripon and Murchison Falls, the outlets of Lake Victoria. Indri Debono (or Andrea) was from Malta.
Are you sure about this? Rippon Falls used to be the outlet of the Nile from Lake Victoria, before it was drowned out by the Owen Falls Dam, but Murchison Falls isn't - it's on the White Nile but several hundred miles further downstream. SidneyStratton#
Can anybody add a section on Speke's racial theories? I don't know anything about them, although I expect they may be unsavory, but they seem to have had an influence on colonial governance policies and thus modern events (e.g. genocide in Rwanda) and are probably worth discussing. 68.17.245.25418:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
When and where did Speke articulate his racial theories? Are they in Speke's celebrated 1863 volume (Journal Of The Discovery Of The Source Of The Nile), or are they articulated elsewhere? Speke's views are mentioned on this Wikipedia page about 'Hamitic Myth', having apparently been cited by Philip Gourevitch on page 368 of his 1999 book on the Rwandan Genocide (We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families).
Speke is regarded as a somewhat enigmatic figure (most of his personal papers were burned, in fact). Is it possible that Speke, dead in 1864, is unfairly scapegoated for inspiring the prejudices of later colonists, notably of the Germans (exploiting Tutsi dominance after 1885) and the Belgians (with direct empire in Rwanda-Burundi after 1918)? Speke's accounts enjoyed early translation into German and French. Were those translations the source of the problem? — Sandover23:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
