African GeniusOhio University Press, 1 sty 2005 - 384 The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson points toward the Africa that might emerge from an ancient civilization that was overlaid and battered by colonialism, then torn apart by the upheaval of colonialism’s dismantlement. Davidson disputes the notion that Africa gained under colonialism by entering the modern world. He sees, instead, an ancient order replaced by modern dysfunction. Davidson’s depiction of the sophisticated “native genius” that has carried Africans through centuries of change is vital to an understanding of modern Africa as well. |
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... British diplomats and agents for one rather minor Italian royal duke , who was taken during the campaign in Ethiopia , he reached Britain , was given ten days leave , and immediately sent back to SOE headquarters in Cairo . By late 1942 ...
... British press, he travelled to the guerrilla-held areas of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Eritrea, at enormous personal risk. In one visit he walked over 300 miles into Angola. He was still reporting in 1988 from Eritrea, when he ...
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... British anthropologists at present suspect their French colleagues , and notably Griaule , of over - systematising the cosmological ideas of Africans , and of turning into regular philosophies what may be little more than patterns of ...
... first high commissioner there , ' the rare experience of dealing with a tabula rasa , an almost untouched and sparsely inhabited country where we can do as we will . ' Elsewhere it was the same . When British pioneers in Founding Ancestors.
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PART FOUR MECHANISMS OF CHANGE | |
From Elders to Kings | |
The Nature of Kingship | |
Conquest and Clientage | |
Trade and Islam | |
Power Rank and Privilege | |
The Crisis Opens | |
PART FIVE THE DELUGE AND TODAY | |
Age Sets | |
Secret Societies | |
PART THREE STRUCTURES OF BELIEF | |
A Science of Social Control | |
Of Witches and Sorcerers | |
UpsideDown People | |
Explanation and Prediction | |
The Danger Within | |
Useful Magic | |
Answers to Anxiety | |
Art for Lifes Sake | |
The Dynamics of Reality | |
From a Guerrilla Diary | |
The Great Transition | |
The Kings Resist | |
Twilight of the Old Gods | |
New Redeemers | |
The Modern Context | |
The Masses React | |
Epilogue AFRICAN DESTINIES | |
Acknowledgements | |
Notes and References | |
Select Bibliography | |
Index | |