Dance and theatre: a pictorial illustration of Kabba Women Woro Musical Assembly
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2001
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Timothy Asobele, S.J.
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Rothmed Publications
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Africa, this is how far we have come. (Sophie Oluwole, a gender activist) A quick look at how Africans were seen in the past through the eye. of European travelers, tourist-explorers, anthropologists,
ethnographers, colonialists shows an ethnocentric, eurocentric perverted and demented lack of an in-dept understanding of the social-organisation of the African societies. Homer (C 700 Bc) wrote that Africa (Ethiopia) is a remote place where people worshipped and sacrificed to gods. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote that Africa is a timeless place in which there' are no arts, letters or social organisation, but only fear and violent death. Beget Friedricb (1770-1831) wrote that the people lived in a condition of mindlessness barbering without laws and morality. J. J. Rousseau (1712 1778) wrote that Africarrs cannot think in any reflexive manner. And that their engagement in arts is perceived as a thoughtless activity which is the antithesis of the intellect. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the 3rd president of the United States of America wrote that it would be impossible for black persons to understand the mathematical formula in Euclid's Famous book The Elements. This was the Jefferson that posited that all men are created equal! Comte Josepli Arthur Gobineau (1816-1882) wrote that Africans are people who lack the sophisticated linguistics skills, the scientific and political faculties of the European and are best suited to dancing, dressing up and singing!
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Timothy Asobele, S.J. (2001). Dance and theatre: a pictorial illustration of Kabba Women Woro Musical Assembly