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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... . Explanation and Prediction 14. The Danger Within 15. Useful Magic 16. Answers to Anxiety 17. Art for Life's Sake 18. The Dynamics of Reality PART FOUR . MECHANISMS OF CHANGE 19. From Elders to Kings 20. The Nature of Kingship.
... Kings Resist 28. Twilight of the Old Gods 29. New Redeemers 30. The Modern Context 31. The Masses React Epilogue. AFRICAN DESTINIES Acknowledgements Notes and References Select Bibliography Index Author's Note That the Africans have a ...
... kings and traders , only help to prove it . Much the greatest number of tropical Africans lived in former times , as many live today , in villages or scattered homesteads , having few material possessions , knowing nothing or little of ...
... kings, lived repeatedly on the ideological as well as physical frontiers of 'somewhere else' and 'something different'. A maxim of their neighbours the Luyia, another compound of wanderers and sedentaries, sounds the characteristic note ...
... kings . They went back to Mutota , the first of their strong rulers , who was ' still the heart of the nation ' and whose burial ground was the hill of Chitakochangonya . They admitted that ' we no longer talk about these matters very ...
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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 | |