爱德华·威尔莫特·布莱登

Agora

爱德华·威尔莫特·布莱登

1832–1912

初步了解有意简化——人物介绍讲得更多

非洲人有自己值得珍视的人格和文化，应当团结起来并发展它，而不是模仿欧洲。

定位

非洲与非洲裔哲学 · 拉丁美洲与加勒比 · 社会与历史, 政治与法, 宗教

生于西印度群岛的学者和外交官，在利比里亚：泛非主义和“非洲人格”观念的早期理论家。

核心思想

非洲人格
泛非主义
非洲的伊斯兰教与基督教

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影响

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克瓦米·恩克鲁玛

影响了
Nkrumah took up Blyden’s idea of an ‘African personality’ and made it a watchword of Pan-African unity in the late 1950s (I Speak of Freedom, 1961). K. Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom (1961); E. W. Blyden, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (1887); H. R. Lynch, Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot (1967)
依据: AI 草稿
克瓦米·恩克鲁玛 › 1909–1972

作品

1887基督教、伊斯兰教与黑人种族
伊斯兰教对非洲人的贡献比传教士的基督教更大——为非洲人的自尊所作的辩护。

立场

Blyden argued that Africans are not a backward copy of Europeans but a people with their own gifts and history – an “African personality” expressed in community, spirituality and closeness to nature. Education and religion should therefore strengthen African character instead of erasing it. In Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race he contended that Islam, spread largely by Africans themselves, had served the continent better than missionary Christianity, which bred contempt for everything African. He called for the return of the diaspora and for African unity. His belief in fixed racial characters is now criticized, but he deeply influenced Garvey, Nkrumah and the Négritude movement.

生平与背景

Edward Wilmot Blyden was born in 1832 on St Thomas in the Danish West Indies. Refused admission to theological colleges in the United States because of his race, he emigrated to Liberia in 1851. There he became a Presbyterian minister, a professor and later president of Liberia College, secretary of state and envoy to Britain. He also worked in Sierra Leone and Lagos, and died in Freetown in 1912.