The Culture Debate in Africa
| Autor: | John A.A. Ayoade |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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| Zdroj: | The Black Scholar. 20:2-7 |
| ISSN: | 2162-5387 0006-4246 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00064246.1989.11412932 |
| Popis: | ture because itwas neither under siege nor at risk. Colonialism, however, assailed African culture to varying degrees in different countries. Each colonial power pursued a cultural policy that was thought most consonant with her philosophy of colonial administration. French Cartesianism operated under the assumption that the African had no culture, thus justifying the French mission civilisatrice of giving culture to Africans. French colonialists, therefore, invented the art of producing French Africans through cultural assimilation. Africans were also enthused by this visionary policy and demanded total assimilation even into French metropolitan politics. These demands forced the French to adopt the new policy of association with the colonial peoples. In one important sense, the policy of assimilation was successful because it brought colonial Francophones to France where the spirit of association rather than assimilation dominated social relations with colonial |
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