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Download or read book African Culture written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa, according to the contributors to this anthology, is one cultural river with numerous tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the environment. They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions, and technologies of African culture that tie those tributaries together. The fourteen original essays by leading scholars of African studies are organized in four general divisions which consider the ethno-cultural motif, the artistic tradition, concepts of cultural value, and cultural continua.