Volume 47, Number 18 · November 16, 2000
Dancing with the Moon
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
In the Arms of Africa:The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
by Roy Richard Grinker
St. Martin's, 354 pp., $27.95
I read The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo for the first time when I was in my teens. Colin Turnbull, its author, had been a friend of my mother's since before I was born and so there was a copy in the library at home. They had met in the early Fifties while working for an organization called Racial Unity, of which Colin was for a period the general secretary. My mother's most substantial contribution to the project of racial unity was probably to marry my father—he was an Asante, a colonial subject from the Gold Coast studying law in London, she, an Englishwoman, the child of a prosperous West Country family.[1]
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