In Defence of African Creativity

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REVIEW ARTICLE IN DEFENCE OF AFRICAN CREATIVITY BY DAVID MAXWELL (Keele University) GIFFORD, Paul, African Christianity. Its Public Role, London, Hurst & Co., 1998, viii, 368 pp., 1 85065 335 6. African states have undergone considerable political change over the last decade and a half. Prior to the mid 1980s the power structures of the prevailing autocratic or one-party regimes seemed unitary and hege- monic. Such regimes had sought to engross in themselves all associa- tional life such as trade unions and voluntary associations, along with the independent media. But, over the last fifteen years, there has arisen throughout the

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