A Few Words From Ali A Mazrui ...

"European colonial rule in Africa was more effective in destroying indigenous African structures than destroying African culture. The tension between new imported structures and old resilient cultures is part of the post-colonial was of cultures in the African continent."

"Before a seed germinates it must first decay. A mango tree grows out of a decaying seed. A new Africa may be germinating in the decay of the present one -- and the ancestors are presiding over the process."

Ali A Mazrui, Kenyan Africanist, from his book The Africans: A Triple Heritage, published by Little Brown & Co, 1986.