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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: derogatory words
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 09:05:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 09:05:47 1985
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In article <> rotimi@hou2h.UUCP (R.GBADAMOSI) writes:
>Does anyone out there know why people talk about tribes only when referring
>to African peoples?

I hope that is not regarded as exceptionally rude by Africans. In my case, the
predisposition to do so stems in part from trying to internalize the notion 
that the "national" boundaries of the African continent may be inactuality
a set of arbitrary territories (which probably bear *some* relationship to
kinship communities....) set up within the last 2 or 3 centuries by a pack
of westerners.

If that's rude, I sincerely apologize. What is the African view of statehood
and nationhood and tribal relations?



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