Challenge of culture in Africa : from restoration to integration / Bernard N. Fonlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fonlon, Bernard Nsokika, 1924-1986.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--Africa.

Politics and culture.

Afrocentrism.

Africa--Civilization--Historiography.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG ; [East Lansing] : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA ñ Cameroon Cultural Review ñ under the title ìIdea of Cultureî. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which the modern African cultural structure should be raised; the soil into which the new seed should be sown; the stem into which the new scion should be grafted; the sap that should enliven the entire organism. This culture, the object of imperialist mockery and rejected, needs rehabilitation. However, such rehabilitation of African culture cannot be a mere archaeological en

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part One. Culture as Tillage; The Genesis of Culture; The Purpose of Culture; The African Ideal; Educating to Unman; The Witness of the Ancients; Back to the Sterner Spirit; Part Two. Culture as Fruit and Harvest; The Physical Strata; The Strata of the Arts; The Strata of Abstract Thought; The Primacy of Morality; The Unerring Test of Civilisation; The Role of Religion; Summing Up; The Principles of Cultural Growth; Culture and Africa; The Decline and the Cause; Restoring the Remnants; Notes; Back Cover

Notes:

"First published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA--Cameroon Cultural Review--under the title 'Idea of Culture'"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83).

Contains:

Idea of culture.

ISBN:

9786613004826

9781283004824

1283004828

9789956579730

9956579734

9789956578719

9956578711

9789956578443

9956578444

OCLC:

830165990