The frontier continent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1505118,00.html
The tendency to see Africa as exceptional underestimates our
increasingly common experience of corporate globalisation
Christopher Davis
Monday June 13, 2005
The Guardian
Tony Blair's Commission for Africa has left me bewildered. As an
anthropologist interested in "traditional" medicine, I was delighted to
see its report's attempt to take an Africa-centred point of view.
Reading a sentence stating that "history shows African cultures to have
been tremendously adaptive, absorbing a wide range of outside
influences" is a relief to those of us who have tried for years to make
this point. The commission is far better placed than any academic to
bring to the world's attention the energy and ingenuity with which
African people have engaged and resolved the problems facing them.
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