Africa in Transition — I before European Colonization

Abstract

In this issue and the two following, we present a series of articles by a leading African sociologist on three important phases of changing Africa. In this first part the author discusses some of the fundamental characteristics of African point of view. The description is of the spiritual world of African people before they were influenced by European civilization and Christianity, but much of it is by no means lost today, as the author often personally testifies. The parts which follow are “Africa under European Colonialism” and “Africa and Technical Civilization.”