From: M.Titahmboh@lut.ac.uk (Mana TitahMboh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Polygamy (Was: Walt Mweene Disney does UCT
Date: 21 Nov 92 13:16:27 GMT
Organization: Loughborough University

In article <VS8SBPQJ@cc.swarthmore.edu>, imofoke1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Ivan
Mofokeng) writes:
|> adavies@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Anthony Davies) writes:
|> <<<<Stuf deleted>>>>>
|> 
|> > Western culture isn't a package deal - some of it's bad, some of it's good.
|> |> > Don't we all wish life was simpler.  Shades of grey, Makala: shades of
|> grey.
|> Dave man, thanks for these few words man.  I wish that most the white
|> audience out there can learn to accept this.  Better still, learn to live
|> confortably with the fact that their cultures are not so godly afterall.   
|> 
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|> 
|> > Anthony Davies
|> >
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|> >                        adavies@vax.ox.uk.ac (this account)
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|> frankly i am sick and tired of reading about how bad the african culture
|> is.  i will like to think that there will be no need for my brothers makala
|> and mweene to throw the f- and other unpleasnt words at white people had
|> they not devoted so much time in attacking the african culture.  i do
|> understand that there are some bad things in every culture and that there is
|> a
|> need for some of them to be changed, but as an african i am tired of seeing
|> white people constantly attacking my culture without once acknowledging
|> the good things in it.
|> i am wondering then whether this is another of those excercises meant to
|> marginalise us.  they invited themselves to africa and, through years of
|> colonization, striped us of all that we had.  our culture is all that we
|> have left to keep us together.   
|> Please, please, stp marginalising it.
|> 
|> phoka

It is up to us (Africans) to be proud of our culture, a large part of which, I
can assure you has remarkably survied colonialism. The problem w it (the
culture) faces is nothing to do with the ( white man's) condemnation of it per
se. It is much more to do with a lot of "Africans" having for so long taken to
the white man's culture, with the apparent belief that it was better.
 I am ashamed to admit that in certain parts of the continent people still
commend their childrens' success by saying "he/she accomplished that like a
white man."  Before we can begin to become proud of our culture again we must
learn that it (the culture ), if not superior, is as estimable as that of the
whiteman. I hasten to add a lot of my friends are European or European-originals
and are generally decent, if sometimes ill-informed about Africa.  
I think I can safely say that we are coming back if I keep seeing contributions
from people like phoka. 
While we are on the subject of parts on the back, I would like to thank those of
you sca netters who replied to my contribution on "Mutilation".

And now to the main point... My girl-friend has been disagreeing with me on the
subject of polygamy, which ( polygamy, that is) I might cite as something of the
culture left in tack in the wake of colonisation, I would be interested to know
other readers' views on the subject. I imagine there will be a lot said about
this subject, so please don't flame me; notice I haven't expressed a view on the
subject; and stick to the subject. 

Mana.TitahMboh
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