Annetto Casolani - a pro Jesuit Bishop, who had studied in Rome and knew Arabic - was fascinated by the exploration taking place in Africa. When reading the book by the Austrian Ignaz Pallme, he learnt about the people of Kordofan, and their world of slavery, slave-hunting and slave-markets . He persuaded the Vatican to set up the Vicariate of Central Africa in 1846 which covered an enormous area from the Red Sea as far as the Atlantic in places and as far south as modern Zimbabwe.
-Ken Ardel
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