1.9 Jack Goody Part 2: The Gonja Kingdom and The LoDagaa

Dilettantery

"He was an old man who had seen life. In his village he had prepared himself to live a full life. But the change came. It was not a sudden change. A white man with a book in his hand. Every evening this white man with the book had sat at the edge of the village and played with the children."

—David Rubadiri, No Bride Price, 1967

"Because of the colonizing structure, a dichotomizing system has emerged, and with it a great number of current paradigmatic oppositions have developed: traditional versus modern; oral versus written and printed; agrarian and customary communities versus urban and industrialized civilization; subsistence economies versus highly productive economies. In Africa a great deal of attention is generally given to the evolution implied and promised by the passage from the former paradigms to the latter."

—V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa

Sources and discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/ldmyji/19_jack_goody_part_2_the_gonja_kingdom_and_the/?