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While we are free to choose the role in which we cast ourselves as active agents of history, we do not put on the agenda the social issues to which we respond.

— Archie Mafeje

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The task before African intellectuals is not to imitate but to create.

History is not made by abstractions but by real men and women acting under concrete historical conditions.

The African experience has to be understood on its own terms and not merely as a reflection of European history.

If in the face of apparent defeat, we cannot maximise our gains, then it is imperative that we minimise our losses.

Anthropology cannot claim innocence where it has served the interests of domination.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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