No, just a substantive and representative sample to indicate its prevalence. The Niger river and its street gutter tributaries suffice for that purpose.
In that cities are organized communities with governments and laws
It's a very dubious assertion in many african cities that (1) they are organized, (2) they have functioning governments, and (3) they operate under a rule of law. More often than not its a clutter of haphazard slum construction with no clear functioning authority and uncontrolled roving bandits, gangs, and militias staking out turf by way of coercion and intimidation...in other words the very antithesis of civilization. Simply having a bunch of people in the same place doesn't make it civilized. Without law, it only makes it crowded and smelly.
I would say that they are inherently civilized in the Latin sense of the word.
Which would mean that Africa unfortunately learned very little from its encounter with Latin society.
It's actually more common in the Delta blues of the 1920s. Perhaps you can denigrate Mississippi "culture" now.
Blues music transcends the brothel songs and bawdy minstrel routines that characterized its lesser forms, leaving the non-profane as its more celebrated examples today. The same cannot be said of your favored form of atonal expression, as mainstream hip-hop and gang rape are largely synonymous.
If you don't think that the crime of slavery should go unpunished
It's perpetrators in the civilized world have been dead for over 100 years now. Are you advocating digging up corpses and subjecting them to indigenous African "religious" rituals?
or that colonialism is preferable to freedom
If a particular colony is incapable of governing itself, then yes. Robert Mugabe has more than amply demonstrated that to be the case.
To paraphrase Harvey Mansfield: If you think this is a bad translation, give us a better one.
Thanks but no thanks. What I see of the articles provided does not indicate that their quality or content is deserving of any further energy or attention.
By this logic, you could assert that Mississippi is a toxic waste dump.
It's a very dubious assertion in many african cities that (1) they are organized, (2) they have functioning governments, and (3) they operate under a rule of law.
Which cities, specifically?
. More often than not its a clutter of haphazard slum construction with no clear functioning authority and uncontrolled roving bandits, gangs, and militias staking out turf by way of coercion and intimidation...in other words the very antithesis of civilization.
Could you provide some factual evidence supporting your claim that African cities -- specifically cities in West Africa, our topic of discussion -- are "more often than not" organized in this manner?
Which would mean that Africa unfortunately learned very little from its encounter with Latin society.
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Blues music transcends the brothel songs and bawdy minstrel routines that characterized its lesser forms, leaving the non-profane as its more celebrated examples today.
Then please explain why Robert Johnson, a man who claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil, is the "King of the Delta Blues."
as mainstream hip-hop and gang rape are largely synonymous.
Perhaps you should look up the meaning of the word "synonymous".
Are you advocating digging up corpses and subjecting them to indigenous African "religious" rituals?
I'm saying that slavery was a crime. Apparently you think it's a thoughtcrime for a magazine to publicly consider how this crime might be rectified.
If a particular colony is incapable of governing itself, then yes.
And whose decision would that be?
What I see of the articles provided does not indicate that their quality or content is deserving of any further energy or attention.
It reads much better in French.