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...most interesting article, Pan Africanism and the White Man's Burden, was written by Aryee Quaye Armah who graduated from Harvard in 1963 and is presently studying at the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana. Armah attempts to prove that Pan-Africanism is not simply a reaction to British colonialism, but rather is an outgrowth of it. Summarizing his thesis, Ahmah says "that the seeds of Pan-Africanism can be found in Britain's imperial ideology, and that it is through the working out of the (British) ideology that Pan-Africanism came to fruition...
...Armah indulges in an over-simplified historical approach to describe the ideology of the "White Man's Burden." An unequal conflict is depicted between the Britisher, "arrogant, triumphant, an industrial success," who attributes his prosperity to "biological and moral superiority," and the African, who from 1828-1875 was "not only weak, but throughly demoralized and degraded by the slave trade...
Development towards Pan-Africanism is then split up into four stages. In the first stage Armah describes how the African intelligentsia lost its influence when local priests and chiefs were defeated by Christian Imperialists. In the second stage the intelligentsia was deeply influenced by a recognition of its own impotence and only acted in humble obedience to British superiority...
...fourth stage, according to Armah, saw political independence and "the end of British ideology as an effective focre." The Ghanians had accepted the premises of colonial rule and simply used its most favorable application. Thus within the framework of colonialism, the local leaders had maneuvered towards independence...
...Ball," George A. K. Armah describes a little boy who disobeys his mother once, is punished, and is puzzled by life. That's all. Within fifteen lines the style varies from "Behind the soft sweetness of the aaahh there is hidden a mighty pain which will not be satisfied until the sea has exacted its vengeance," to "It was not that his mother was cruel or anything like that...