Anywhere but here: black intellectuals in the Atlantic world and beyond / Black intellectual thought in modern America: a historical perspective

Abstract

1. Also, consistent with the structural-functionalists’ intent to contribute to the project of Indirect Rule, Apter ‘discovers’ a primordial Yoruba political system in which authorities are conveniently divided among ‘royalty,’ ‘civil chiefs,’ ‘military chiefs,’ and priests. Apter is not sufficiently suspicious that his own discourse, and the British imperial logic from which he and the colonies inherited it, are part of the cultural ‘“there” there’ that he presumes to have excavated from the pristine past.