LEADER 03211nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910789855303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-00482-8 010 $a9786613004826 010 $a9956-579-73-4 010 $a9956-578-71-1 010 $a9956-578-44-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079573 035 $a(EBL)1135105 035 $a(OCoLC)830165990 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000672709 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11460826 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672709 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10635772 035 $a(PQKB)11348005 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135105 035 $a(OCoLC)715154148 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21782 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135105 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448526 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300482 035 $a(PPN)187343489 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079573 100 $a20101215d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChallenge of culture in Africa$b[electronic resource] $efrom restoration to integration /$fBernard N. Fonlon 210 $aMankon, Bamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa RPCIG ;$a[East Lansing] $cDistributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (98 p.) 300 $a"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. 311 $a9956-578-98-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 83). 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aThis book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA n? Cameroon Cultural Review n? under the title i?Idea of Culturei?. 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 en 606 $aPolitics and culture$zAfrica 606 $aAfrocentrism 607 $aAfrica$xCivilization$xHistoriography 615 0$aPolitics and culture 615 0$aAfrocentrism. 676 $a306.096 700 $aFonlon$b Bernard Nsokika$f1924-1986.$01580867 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789855303321 996 $aChallenge of culture in Africa$93862076 997 $aUNINA