Croisière Noire
The Croisière Noire ("Black Cruise" or "Black Expedition") was a Trans-Africa expedition over a distance of 28,000 km and one of the expeditions initiated by André Citroën , which served to increase the international recognition of his Citroën brand and the international reputation of the French Underline the automotive industry.
prehistory
This expedition was preceded by the first Saharan tour from Touggourt in Algeria to Timbuktu in Mali, which was carried out in 1922 with five half-track vehicles .
General
It led with eight half-track vehicles from Colomb-Béchar in Algeria via Timbuktu to Antananarivo (Tananarive) in Madagascar . Georges-Marie Haardt and his deputy Louis Audouin-Dubreuil managed this undertaking from October 28, 1924 to August 1, 1925. Other participants included a film team, a tropical doctor and the painter and draftsman Alexander Evgenyevich Jakowlew .
In 1933 a sound documentary about the expedition was published.
See also
literature
- Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil: Expedition Africa: The legendary "Expédition Citroën Center Afrique" from Algeria to Madagascar, 1924/1925 , Munich: Frederking Thaler 2004, ISBN 3-89405-485-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ariane Audouin-Dubreuil: Expedition Africa: The legendary "Expédition Citroën Center Afrique" from Algeria to Madagascar, 1924/1925 , Munich: Frederking Thaler 2004, p. 9.
- ↑ Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike: Black African Cinema , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 48
