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• Winning struggle to reestablish African culture alongside the economic revolution

  "Although economic considerations now outweigh most others in the minds of most African people and their leaders in their quest for national images, there is in Nigeria, as in many other African countries, a growing cultural awareness in the face of the political turmoil that plagues most of the continent....Haunted by the knowledge that these ancient kingdoms [of Africa] had well-developed cultural and political organizations of their own, today's African countries are at the crossroads...The dilemma of most African countries is to find that way forward which involves a marriage between economics, culture and politics..."
• Folklore Modern Style

  Excerpt: "It's a fact of history that one of the Gold Coast's (modern Ghana's) earliest exports--along with the gold dust and the slaves--was her folklore which was carried with them (it was virtually all that they could carry) when these pitiful units of human cargo were shipped across the Atlantic to North and South America and to the Caribbean islands...Back at home in west Africa, where the written word had not yet been developed, the oral traditions and the art of the story tellers remained the basis for all history and literature."