Editing Henry Morton Stanley (section)

===Opinion about mixed African-Arab peoples===
The Wangwana of Zanzibar were of [[Afro-Arab|mixed Arabian and African ancestry]]: "Africanized Arabs", in Stanley's words. They became the backbone of all his major expeditions and were referred to as "his dear pets" by sceptical young officers on the Emin Pasha Expedition, who resented their leader for favouring the Wangwana above themselves. "All are dear to me", Stanley told William Grant Stairs and Arthur Jephson, "who do their duty and the Zanzibaris have quite satisfied me on this and on previous expeditions."<ref name="jeal2007" />{{rp|331}} Stanley came to think of an individual Wangwana as "superior in proportion to his wages to ten Europeans".<ref>Stanley to Strauch, 20 September 1880, RMCA.</ref> When Stanley first met a group of his Wangwana assistants, he was surprised: "They were an exceedingly fine looking body of men, far more intelligent in appearance than I could ever have believed African barbarians could be".{{sfn|Stanley|1872|p=30}}

On the other hand, in one of his books, Stanley said about mixed Afro-Arab people: "For the half-castes I have great contempt. They are neither black nor white, neither good nor bad, neither to be admired nor hated. They are all things, at all times&nbsp;... If I saw a miserable, half-starved negro, I was always sure to be told, he belonged to a half-caste. Cringing and hypocritical, cowardly and debased, treacherous and mean&nbsp;... this syphilitic, blear-eyed, pallid-skinned, abortion of an Africanized Arab."{{sfn|Stanley|1872|p=6}}