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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: concluding. [QUOTE]"Thus in the Sudan [URL=http://www.][b]old real African warm-blooded culture existed and could be found in Equatorial Africa, where neither Ethiopian thought, Hamitic blood, or European civilization had drawn the pattern[/b][/URL]. Everywhere when we examine this ancient culture it bears the same impression. In the great museums -- Trocadero, British Museum, in Belgium, Italy, Holland, and Germany -- everywhere we see the same spirit, the same character, the same nature. All of these separate pieces unite themselves to the same expression and build a picture equally impressive as that of a collection of the art of Asia. The striking beauty of the cloth, the fantastic beauty of the drawing and the sculpture, the glory of the ivory weapons, the collection of fairy tales equal to the Thousand and One nights, the Chinese novels, and the Indian philosophy. "In comparison with such spiritual accomplishments the impression of the African spirit is easily seen. It is stronger in its folds, simpler in its richness. Every weapon is simple and practical, not only in form but fantasy. Every line of carving is simple and strong. There is nothing that makes a clearer impression of strength, and all that streams out of the fire and the hut, the sweat and the grease- treated hides and the animal dung. Everything is practical, strong, workmanly. This is the character of the African style. When one approaches it with full understanding, one immediately realizes that this impression rules all Africa. It expresses itself in the activity of all Negro people even in their sculpture. It speaks out of their dances and their masks; out of the understanding of their religious life, just as out of the reality of their living, their state building, and their conception of fate. It lives in their fables, their fairy stories, their wise sayings and their myths.[i] And once we are forced to this conclusion, then the Egyptian comes into the comparison. For this discovered culture form of Negro Africa has the same peculiarity.[/i] [b] Leo Frobenius[/b][i] Histoire de la Civilisation Africaine[/i] translated by Back and Ermoat Paris: Gallimard, 1936 6th edition page 56 in [b] W. E. Burghardt Du Bois[/b][i] The World and Africa: An inquiry into the part which Africa has played in world history[/i] New York: Viking Press, 1946 pp. 79, 156[/QUOTE][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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