This paper introduces a break with the traditional monolithic view of colonial cartography in Africa, in which cartography as a colonial instrument belonged only to the European powers. These took credit for cartographical projects, without acknowledging the work of non-European powers. It historically contextualizes the Egyptian cartography of Harar (today in Ethiopia) during 1875–1885, and throws light on various aspects such as European and Egyptian production and reproduction of cartographic knowledge, cartography's role in the establishment of an Egyptian colonial core in Harar, and its representations of a non-European urban colonial hub, as well as a symbols of territoriality and sovereignty. The paper also reveals the later British and Ethiopian reproduction of Egyptian cartographic knowledge, which practically served their own imperial interests in Harar's region since mid 1880s, and illuminates the significance of the Egyptian cartographic knowledge to shaping of twentieth century's Egyptian historical narratives and collective memories.

本文介绍了对非洲殖民制图传统的单一观点的突破，在这种观点中，制图作为一种殖民工具只属于欧洲列强。这些人因制图项目而受到赞誉，而没有承认非欧洲大国的工作。它将 1875 年至 1885 年期间的埃及哈拉尔（今埃塞俄比亚）制图历史背景化，并阐明了欧洲和埃及制图知识的生产和再生产、制图在哈拉尔建立埃及殖民核心的作用等各个方面，以及它代表了一个非欧洲城市殖民中心，以及领土和主权的象征。论文还揭示了后来英国和埃塞俄比亚对埃及制图知识的复制，