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| Title: | Toward Cultural Independence in Africa: Some Illustrations from Nigeria and Ghana |
| Author: | July, Robert W. |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Periodical: | African Studies Review |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 3-4 |
| Period: | September-December |
| Pages: | 119-131 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Ghana Nigeria |
| Subjects: | national culture African culture Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524165 |
| Abstract: | To a large extent the independence movement in Africa was a movement toward westernization. At independence governments moved forward at full pace to mechanize their agriculture, to establish modern industries, to introduce all the manifestations of high technology. But, an age-old African civilization still survived, and there were Africans who were concerned that too rapid and unreflective an adoption of foreign ways might lead to complications. The years directly after the Second World War were especially conducive to the revival of indigenous culture. Africa's own values as expressed in its arts, its literature, its philosophy, and its history were reaffirmed. Political freedom would thrive best, it was said, when accompanied by a parallel autonomy of cultural expression. Some examples are presented here chosen to illustrate the exertions by humanists on behalf of a cultural independence they felt to be an essential part of the decolonization process: History - Higher education - The African personality - The arts - Conclusion: an African idiom and an African voice. Notes, ref. |
