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New York – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
225 pages
ISBN 0-19-506852-1
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of African-American Studies in Harvard, addresses in this well arranged collection of revised essays a broad variety of African issues. To mention furthermost are his brilliant analyses of examples of racism and his plige for a new, non-racist panafricanism as well as his profound discussion of the theories of traditional religions (old gods, new worlds) in a post-modern context, where he convincingly shows the limits of symbolist interpretation of religion. His concern – and here he cites Kwasi Wiredu – is to show, that so-called "African" problems are only to be solved if they are understood to be human problems after all – depending only on specific situations, not on a basic difference between people (see 136).
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