... being passed from generation to generation like a monarchy was destroyed. Families were split apart and men and boys were put to work or sent to missionary schools to be educated by the French. Father Drumont was seen as a benevolent person who has come with the message of Christ to save the "pagans-, but ... are interested. However, the men aren't as interested or willing because it requires them to give up polygamy (having multiple wives) and practice monogamy as the Christian faith requires. The Africans thought that the mission was to help the poverty, but most didn't realize that i...

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• Grade Level: High School

... associated mostly with the rural world. They seem never to have found a home in the modern world, especially in the imported system of education. Schools have not brought out the great importance of proverbs in the lessons being taught in school. "The central intellectual problem of Africa today is how to ... it, because of slave masters. Slaves would take the old stories and create new ones which incorporated aspects of their life, as well as the Christian religion into which they have been converted. This aspect is still seen in black churches and music today. Many modern day artists,...

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• Grade Level: High School