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LORD LUGARD -
Opinion and Observations of Africans – QUOTATIONS
Lord Frederick John Dealty
Lugard, The Dual Mandate, pg.70 (1926)
(From Prof. S.
Kwaku Asare, GLU Forum)
"In
character and temperament, the typical African of this
race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person.
LACKING IN SELF-CONTROL, DISCIPLINE, AND FORESIGHT.
Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and
polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of
veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an
oriental loves jewelry.
HIS THOUGHTS ARE
CONCENTRATED ON THE EVENTS AND FEELINGS OF THE MOMENT,
and he suffers little from the apprehension for the
future, or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to
the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic,
and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity and
want of desire to rise beyond the State he has reached.
Through the ages THE AFRICAN APPEARS TO HAVE EVOLVED
NO ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS CREED, and though some tribes
appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom
rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often
to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural"
“HE LACKS THE POWER OF ORGANIZATION, and is
conspicuously deficient in the management and control
alike of men or business. HE LOVES THE DISPLAY OF POWER,
but fails to realize its responsibility... he will work
hard with a less incentive than most races.
He
has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct
rather than a moral virtue... In brief, the virtues and
defects of this race-type are those of attractive
children, whose confidence when it is won is given
ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and
without envy...
Perhaps the two traits which have
impressed me as those most characteristic of the African
native are HIS LACK OF APPREHENSION AND HIS LACK OF
ABILITY TO VISUALIZE THE FUTURE."
---Lord
Frederick John Dealty Lugard, The Dual Mandate, pg.70
(1926)
(From Prof. S. Kwaku Asare, GLU Forum, Sun
9/1/2013 2:48 PM )
Publiser's note:
Whether true or not, some
observations leave you speechless. This one much
so for two reasons.
1. That one human
being should have this view of another
2. That this man's
race still enjoys the graces and respect of the Black
man.
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