Volume 4, Number 1 · February 11, 1965
Being Black
By Roland Oliver
The Importance of Being Black
by Frank Moraes
Macmillan, 436 pp., $8.95
Political Parties in French Speaking West Africa
by Ruth Schachter Morgenthau
Oxford, 434 pp., $8.80
African Socialism
edited by William H. Friedland, edited by Carl G. Rosberg Jr.
Published for the Hoover Institution by Standford University Press, 313 pp., $6.75
How seriously should we take Africa's loudly-voiced claims to African-ness? Is there an 'African personality' which is sufficiently identifiable to be studied? And, if so, is it of such all-embracing importance as to have colored every set of ideas that has been brought into Africa during the past hundred years, so that one can now more meaningfully speak, for example, of African Christianity than of Christianity in Africa, or of African Socialism than of Socialism in Africa?
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