Challenge of culture in Africa : from restoration to integration /
This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA Cameroon Cultural Review under the title Idea of Culture. 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...
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| Language: | English |
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Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : [East Lansing] :
Langaa RPCIG ; Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press,
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=410879 |
Table of 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