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Download full textMurphy, E. Jefferson – 1973
Myths about Africa are an inevitable outgrowth of a fundamental set of cultural assumptions about race and civilization that have been building in Western culture for at least four hundred years. The old African mythology, which consisted of crude, uncomplimentary stereotypes has been replaced by a new mythology which is much more insidious and…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Bias
