Foreword to The Origins of Modern African Thought

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Foreword to The Origins of Modern African Thought By Robert W. July, pp. i-xi; originally published, 1967; Africa World Press edition, 2004. By Richard L. Sklar1 For the better part of two centuries, racial domination has been the central concern of African social thought. Other questions, among them national identity, the role of chieftaincy, representation, justice, and constitutional design, have often been defined in relation to preoccupations with racial and colonial forms of domination.

• subject of crucial impor- tance that intellectual historians
• racial questions
• socialist revolution at the forefront of intellectual dis- course
• obsession with the methods of socialist revolution at the expense of individual liberty
• african thought
• colonial times
• political thought