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Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the
African.
* Carothers concludes his discussion of the effects of
phonetic writing on Africans with an excerpt (pp. 317­18)
from an article that appeared in a Kenya daily newspaper, the
East African Standard . The author, a missionary doctor,
headed his article “How Civilization Has Affected the African.”
The purpose of this article is to show that through
a very little education a remarkably rapid and far-reaching
change has taken place in African boys and girls, so much
so that in a generation, human characteristics and
reactions have altered to a degree which one would have
expected to have taken centuries.
The high qualities of the African untouched by