Africa and Africans"The aim of this book is to put African culture in modern perspective for Western readers by the concomitant examination of the African facts and the Western myths that have obscured it."--Preface |
Contents
The Myth and the Fact | 1 |
Colonialism and the Seeds of Freedom | 11 |
The African Continent | 32 |
Copyright | |
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