The African GeniusJames Currey, 2004 - 367 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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... century : whether from pseudo- scientific Burtoniana of the moralising sort , or from the kind of obser- vation , by no means rare in its connotations of sexual prurience or anxiety , that was offered by an anthropologist of a century ...
... century : whether from pseudo- scientific Burtoniana of the moralising sort , or from the kind of obser- vation , by no means rare in its connotations of sexual prurience or anxiety , that was offered by an anthropologist of a century ...
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... century ; though once again , so far as one can tell , partly in response to new trading opportunities which then came inland from the East Coast . Along the Indian Ocean sea- board the city - states of the Swahili had evolved after the ...
... century ; though once again , so far as one can tell , partly in response to new trading opportunities which then came inland from the East Coast . Along the Indian Ocean sea- board the city - states of the Swahili had evolved after the ...
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... century , and probably much earlier . Moreover , up to the crisis of the late nineteenth century , the use of power was always balanced by built - in checks and counterpoises , while the crop producers lived within a society where ...
... century , and probably much earlier . Moreover , up to the crisis of the late nineteenth century , the use of power was always balanced by built - in checks and counterpoises , while the crop producers lived within a society where ...
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