The mirage of progress
David Rolfe Graeber
davidgraeber.org“Africans are notoriously religious” - John Mbiti (1969) African Religions and Philosophy.
To contextualize this more: when Mbiti says African peoples had ‘no concept of the future’ he doesn’t mean they couldn’t plan, prepare, or think ahead, rather what he’s saying is the future does not exist as an abstract, infinite horizon (he... See more
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