for me. The one thing that I didn't find noble (and I dunno if I should be saying this in mixed company) was his "objective" to give westerners a better perspective on African ways. For me, I don't think that's important. I don't really care if they respect it (at least not at this point). Maybe THAT IS THE WAY for us to reclaim that...i.e. to abandoan as much of their ways as possible. In other words to FORCE ourselves to adapt and adopt our old way or perish. We're gettign dangeroulsy close to the latter...