THIS: and it’s not clever, it’s angry:
_Just to be annoyingly p.c., I’d like to point out that “African mythology” was indeed passed down through storytelling exactly like “Asian” mythology, “European” mythology, and all other preliterate mythologies.
I’d also like to point out that there was never an “African” mythology. Africa, as Sarah Palin reminded us (G. Bush also noted this in about 2003),
is a really big “country”. It’s so big that people in, say, Egypt (did you know that’s in Africa?) are only recently able to speak on a regular basis with people in, say, Swaziland
(have you ever heard of Swaziland?), and even now they must rely on translators. People in these locations never shared mythologies.
I am tired of people being so ignorant about Africa. (And frightened.) How can we take up space in the world when we think “Africans” did this or that. “Africans” come in 8,000 varieties. oh I forgot: the way we take up so much space is to remain intentionally ignorant of the existence of anyone not exactly like our imperial Selves_