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African genius / Basil Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Basil, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio ; Oxford, [England] : Ohio University Press : James Currey, 2004.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9780821445655
- 0821445650
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