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A 5 page analysis of African writer Anthony Appiah's book In My Father's House. In this work, Appiah rejects what he refers to as the 'rhetoric of descent,' and advocates a 'reasonable' course for identifying and consenting to a paradigm that defines issues concerning African identity, No additional sources cited.
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issues concerning African identity, In so doing, he argues that African identity is a work in progress and that there isnt a "final identity that is African" (Appiah 173). In
establishing these points, as Appiah does in chapter nine of his book, "African Identities," he first establishes his argument in history by discussing what has preceded the current situation. Appiah
informs the reader that the majority of black Africa was affected by European ideas until the last years of the nineteenth century (173). While it is true that direct trade
with Europe?with the slave trade as the most predominant?had structured the economies of many West African countries from the seventeenth century onward, it wasnt until the nineteenth century that European
colonization of Africa began in earnest (Appiah 173). The author asserts that the major cultural impact of Europe on Africa has occurred since the First World War (174). He
points out that if one could travel through Africa during the early part of the century, the most outstanding characteristic of the continent would be its cultural diversity?which ranged
from "small groups of Bushman hunter-gathers, with their stone age materials, to the Hausea kingdom, rich in worded metal" (174). At every place, the traveler would have felt that there
were "profoundly different impulses, ideas and forms of life" (174). In short, Appiah makes a good case for the non-existence of a Pan-African identity. Nevertheless, Appiah also asserts that
such an identity is in creation, but not the way in which many African-Americans, and other people of Africa descent would like to believe. First of all, Appiah argues that
ideas about Pan-African identity should not be based on race. He writes that "race" as a concept is disabling because it presuppose the illusion that black, or any other color
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