Title:	The power of African cultures
Authors:	Toyin, Falola
Keywords:	Africa—Civilization
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	University of Rochester
Description:	The major aim of this book is to present the relevance of culture to Africans in the modern era. The definition and meaning of culture are broad: values, beliefs, texts about the beliefs and ideas, multiple daily practices, aesthetic forms, systems of communications (e.g., languages), institutions of society, a variety of experiences that capture Africans’ way of life, a metaphor to express political ideas, and the basis of an ideology to bring about both political and economic changes. Even nature does not escape inclusion in the definition of culture, disregarded, as some analysts do, as being in opposition to culture. To many Africans, nature is understood in part as a religious agency—to talk about nature is to talk about culture. The complexity of past traditions is inscribed into the notion of contemporary modernity
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10143
ISBN:	1-58046-139-5
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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