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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... neighbours the Luyia, another compound of wanderers and sedentaries, sounds the characteristic note. Oratseshera akharo khali ebusiba, say the Luyia, 'Don't laugh at a distant boat being tossed by the waves [of Lake Nyanza]. Your ...
... neighbours of the Dinka who tell the same general story . ' Long long ago ' , says the Akan legend , ' God lived on earth or at least was very near to us . But there was a certain old woman who used to pound her fufu [ cassava meal ] ...
... neighbours the Bambara, though of a different history and language grouping, have the same idea. For them 'the earth is divided into seven parts corresponding to seven heavens', and was so arranged by Faro, the agent of Creation. Yet it ...
... neighbours . Always , the lands of the unknown stood menacingly near , and into these a man would venture at his risk and peril . A village or a cattle - camp : one or two other villages or cattle - camps whose evening smoke climbed ...
Basil Davidson. still more difficult in the past when cattle raiding by neighbours could be frequent and material goods were even fewer . It is an equilibrium which could never have resisted any major breaking of the rules . The rules ...
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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 | |