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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 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fonlon, Bernard Nsokika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2010.
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  • 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.