非洲的未来

简介

“The Future of Africa” appeared in New York in 1862 and collects addresses and sermons Alexander Crummell had delivered in Liberia during the previous decade. Among them are “The English Language in Liberia”, an Independence Day address that defends English as a language of liberty and learning for the new republic, and “The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa”, a letter calling on Black Americans to take part in the regeneration of Africa through commerce, education and Christian mission. Crummell presents Liberia as the place where people of African descent can prove their capacity for civilisation and self-government, and he describes the peoples of the African interior as in need of that civilisation – a view later criticised, among others by Kwame Anthony Appiah. The book is a founding document of the Pan-African idea that the diaspora has a responsibility for Africa, and of the debate on emigration among Black Americans before the Civil War.

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