03451nam 2200745Ia 450 991097086590332120200520144314.0978661300482697812830048241283004828978995657973099565797349789956578719995657871197899565784439956578444(CKB)2670000000079573(EBL)1135105(OCoLC)830165990(SSID)ssj0000672709(PQKBManifestationID)11460826(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672709(PQKBWorkID)10635772(PQKB)11348005(OCoLC)715154148(MdBmJHUP)muse21782(Au-PeEL)EBL1135105(CaPaEBR)ebr10448526(CaONFJC)MIL300482(PPN)187343489(Perlego)541593(MiAaPQ)EBC1135105(FR-PaCSA)88825231(FRCYB88825231)88825231(EXLCZ)99267000000007957320101215d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChallenge of culture in Africa from restoration to integration /Bernard N. Fonlon1st ed.Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon Langaa RPCIG ;[East Lansing] Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Pressc20101 online resource (98 p.)"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.9789956578986 9956578983 Includes bibliographical references (p. 83).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 CoverThis 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 enPolitics and cultureAfricaAfrocentrismAfricaCivilizationHistoriographyPolitics and cultureAfrocentrism.306.096Fonlon Bernard Nsokika1924-1986.1797093MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970865903321Challenge of culture in Africa4339175UNINA