Compare and/or contrast the topic of slavery and cultural ideals as expressed by Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative, with Ayi Kwei Armah’s critique on the topic in The Healers.  How do these texts compare and/or contrast to ideals previously critiqued in The Husia, Sundiata, and/or traditional folklore? What do you perceive as Armah’s main intent in The Healers. Agree or disagree with a previously written critique of The Healers that you quote from in making your analysis. (7 paragraphs/5 page maximum/provide MLA quotes and documentation from Armah, Rodney, Equiano, and a minimum of one more of the above texts examined).

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/equiano1.html

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 

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SELECTIONS FROM THE HUSIA: SACRED WISDOM OF ANCIENT EGYPT

“In Africa, there were few slaves and certainly no epoch of

slavery. Most of the slaves were in North African and other

Moslem societies, and in those instances a man and his family

could have the same slave status for generations, within the

overall feudal structure of the society. Elsewhere in Africa,

communal societies were introduced to the concept of owning

alien human beings when they took captives in war. At first, those

captives were in a very disadvantaged position, comparable to

that of slaves, but very rapidly captives or their offspring became

ordinary members of the society, because there was no scope for

the perpetual exploitation of man by man in a context that was

neither feudal nor capitalist.”

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Howard

University Press, 1982, p. 38.

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