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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Yeah, I agree. But how much of the socioeconomic disparity also tied to the slow embrace throughout Africa for modernity? There are reports of explosions of conservative Christianity all over the subcontinent, and this is arguably occurring as a result of the cultural overlap that already exists between modern, third-world, tribalised Africa and critically flaccid expressions of "authentic" Christianity.
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I'm having a hard time embracing (ha!) the slow embrace argument if it doesn't factor in external forms of violence / oppression.
For example, how were many African societies to embrace modernity when they were explicitly being oppressed, enslaved and disenfranchised?