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African Scholarship and African Studies: Challenges for our Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Colin Bundy
Colin Bundy*
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School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
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It is an honour to have been invited to address a SCOLMA conference on such an auspicious anniversary. Birthday greetings are clearly in order - but I did wonder about the inscription in my card. Dryden seemed a bit frivolous: “I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty”. And Shakespeare's sonnet is too gloomy:

“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field“

I considered Benjamin Franklin's opinion: “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.” But I have opted instead for the refrain of a music hall classic, My Old Dutch:

“We've been together now for forty years

An’ it don't seem a day too much!“

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 90: African research & documentation in the new millennium: Papers presented at the SCOLMA 40<span class='sup'>th</span> Anniversary Conference, Oxford, June 2002 , 2002 , pp. 5 - 15
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Copyright © International African Institute 2002

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