“Those who think this is a simple universal principle of government are ill-informed. The principle of government based on might as right is neither universal nor eternal. It is a cultural and historical preference, dominant wherever Europeans rule. The literature of ancient and feudal Africa supports a very different approach to the issue of legitimate power. As usual, though the source texts are both literary and scientific, the scholarship that has identified this cultural difference comes not from departments of literature but from history and Egyptology.” Ayi Kwei Armah “The Eloquence of the Scribes: a memoir on the sources and resources of African literature” Page 217
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