The Civilization of Africa
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Title
The Civilization of Africa
Subject
Editorial on whether European efforts to "bring" "civilization" to Africa will never succeed. The author claims that the answer is yes.
Description
Volume 9, Number 8
Creator
The Undergraduate Editorial Board
Publisher
The Undergraduate
Date
06/01/1884
Contributor
The undergraduate Editorial Board
Coverage
"Will [Africa] ever be blessed with the light of civilization and Christianity."
"We are not to be discouraged by the present condition of Africa for twenty centuries ago who could have predicted the position of Great Britain today, then as fully developed in the darkness of barbarism as Africa now."
"And then [Africa] will receive that large influx of enterprising white men, which will wake her from her long slumber into active life and give her a place on level with her sister lands."
"History shows us that Christianity possesses a power peculiar to itself for drawing uncultivated races out of savagery and enabling them to mount rapidly the first stages of civilization. "
"We are not to be discouraged by the present condition of Africa for twenty centuries ago who could have predicted the position of Great Britain today, then as fully developed in the darkness of barbarism as Africa now."
"And then [Africa] will receive that large influx of enterprising white men, which will wake her from her long slumber into active life and give her a place on level with her sister lands."
"History shows us that Christianity possesses a power peculiar to itself for drawing uncultivated races out of savagery and enabling them to mount rapidly the first stages of civilization. "
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The Undergraduate Editorial Board, “The Civilization of Africa,” Archives of Anti-Racist Activism, accessed October 27, 2026, https://twilightprojectantiracistrecords.middcreate.net/items/show/10.