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Title:
Edward Wilmot Blyden. The African Personality and Early Intellectual Work in the Gold Coast (Ghana)  

Author(s):
Doctoral Candidate Ahmed Bouchemal
h.bouchemal@univ-djelfa.dz
Dialogue of Religions and Civilizations in the Mediterranean Basin Laboratory, Abou Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria
0000-0003-3422-1656
Prof.Dr. Faiza Senouci Meberbeche
senoucif@hotmail.fr
Dialogue of Religions and Civilizations in the Mediterranean Basin Laboratory, Abou Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria
0000-0001-5153-9987

Abstract:
There is a commonly held view that African nationalism took shape out of contacts of African intellectuals with twentieth-century Pan-African leaders. Yet, this interpretation lacked concrete evidence, as many of these intellectuals owed their ideological formulation to Nineteenth-century teachings of Edward Wilmot Blyden. In his writings, Blyden articulated a thorough understanding of African’s strengths and weaknesses. For Blyden, Western civilization intended to make the African a caricature of European society. As a result, the situation of the African became one of chaos as he lived in strict psychological conflicts. A revival of the African personality rested as a solution to the distorted manhood of the African and a path to his future progress. This article examines Blyden’s theory of the African personality as revealed in early intellectual work in the Gold Coast (Ghana). Drawing on Blyden’s African personality theory, the article revealed that these intellectuals begun a vigorous campaign to oppose Europeanization of the African system of life and took an uncompromising stand against ideas of black “inferiority” and “backwardness”.

Keywords:
Blyden; the African personality theory; Western civilization; intellectual; the Gold Coast;

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Presented: November 2021
Included for Publishing: December 2021
Published: January 2022, Volume 13, Issue 25

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