5241, RE: Point? Posted by thrill_factor, Sat Apr-12-03 08:33 PM
>What is the point of recognizing that African Americans >played ***some*** role in Christianizing Afrika? > >This is in no fashion or form, an unusual phenomenon.
does something have to be unusual to be interesting? i myself do find it somewhat interesting, only as one example of a long line of "the af-am man's burden" in africa, from liberia to christian missionaries to garvey to rayford logan to rastafarianism to molefi asante. i do not think it's an unusual phenomenon, rather a variant on what benedict anderson calls long-distance nationalism, but interesting nonetheless because it troubles the idea of identification.
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