Africa Waiting Or the Problem of Africas Evangelization
Africa Waiting Or the Problem of Africas Evangelization
Douglas M Douglas Montagu Thornton
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In Northern Africa, goat's hair is woven into cloth, both for clothing and for tents. In the southern half of the continent, iron is worked where- ever present, and iron implements often form objects of barter. The Negro, however, is not inventive, though he readily imitates. He shows a great deal of skill in the simpler handicrafts, such as basket-work, weaving, and the making of wooden utensils. Political, Social, and Religious Life. In no continent is there less tendency to the formation of ...states than in Africa. This is chiefly due to the nature of the Negro race, which shows, perhaps, less aptitude for political combination than any other people. The Northern races, who undoubtedly stand on a higher level of culture than the Negro, show a much greater disposition to the formation of states, v/hich are therefore found on both sides of the desert zone, where the possibility of cultivation gives a greater NATIVE RACES, LANGUAGES, AM) RELIGIONS 15 fixity to the population. In the desert itself the pastoral life of the inhabitants, with the nomadic habits which it induces, tends rather to the formation of numerous family groups or clans under patriarchal rule, these being occasionally combined over a large area to form a sort of political confederation.
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