Abstract
our day face a challenge not before put to so large a group of people. This challenge is for an unprecedentedly complex triple change: 1. Horizontal change, across the whole range of concepts and practices of life -in thought, language, religion, political and social organization, land, marriage, inheritance, occupations, economics, housing, disease causation and cure, recreation, communications of all kinds, and in nearly every other aspect of life. 2. Vertical change, from the most primal large society remaining on earth, the animistic communal primitivism of 160 million Africans, to something approaching the West's present society, the most individualistic, specialized, and technological society which the world has yet seen. 3. Speedy change, both horizontally and vertically, at a pace not before attempted by any such mass-change attempted by many thousands of Africans in a two or three generations instead of in the three or four milleniums nor-
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