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...Know the truth, and it shall make you free." According to this theory, the job of the university is to promote knowledge and wisdom, to guard our cultural heritage much as a primitive priest guards the tribal legends. The scholar's job is to record and to order the hopes and fears, facts and fancies, anecdotes and dreams, which compose our cultural mythology. Even more important, he must keep adapting this legacy to the demands of a fluid society. The ritual called "research and publication" is thus the scholar's way of keeping the myth up to date...
What's Wrong? The confessed criminals were members of the Panamoli tribe, most of the victims were Basua. The Belgian authorities feel certain that the society of crocodile men was founded as an outgrowth of tribal rivalry. But though the crocodile men admitted their murders and the ritual cannibalism, they still refused last week to give any reason for the crimes...
...over Ghana at the news. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has been having trouble holding together his young country (which got its independence from Britain in March 1957). As eager foster parents of the new nation, the British have generally sided with Nkrumah's need to assert jurisdiction over tribal chieftains, and have made understanding noises about "growing pains." Only a fortnight ago the Mother of Parliaments appropriated $3,500 for a speaker's chair of "dignified design" to be presented to the Ghana Parliament. But was the child proving an apt pupil in democracy? For all his deportations...
There has never before been such a reality of world history as there is today. Areas which heretofore have had no real history as such, and tribal-centered areas, are being drawn irreversibly into the mainstream of world history...
...tribesman sadly predicted that Jean-Marie would live some day like white men, drink water from a tap, not from the spring, and even use a tablecloth at dinner. Author Beti, himself a native of the Cameroons, describes the tribal way of life with such affection and good humor that even the hardened Western reader will long to swap his faucets and tablecloths for the refreshing springs and loincloths of the Cameroonian sticks...