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ANTH326/4A – Peoples & Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
Meeting 2: January 19, 2015
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“I know the source of our problem, of course, anxiety. Africa has had such a fate in the world that the very adjective African can still call up hideous fears of rejection. Better then to cut all links with this homeland, this liability, and become in one giant leap the universal man. Indeed, I understand the anxiety. But running away from myself seems to me a very inadequate way of dealing with an anxiety. And if writers should opt for such escapism, who is to meet the challenge?”
– Africa and Her Writers, p. 627
“ When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”-- Stephen Gish, Desmond Tutu: A Biography, p. 101
“This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.”-- OAU Speech 1963 African Summit
“A child does not grow up only in a single home.”-- H-Net Thread about “It Takes a Village”
By Alexandre Enkerli
Slides for the second class meeting in Alex Enkerli’s ANTH326 course (Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa) at Concordia University.
Bilingual freelance ethnographer (English/French) currently working in User Research (UXR), workshop facilitation, collaborative writing, professional training, field observations, open-ended interviews…