People of Africa (1921)

Good thing that does not apply to the output of the TV and movie industries.

I'd be worried.

Here's an example

> Long, long ago, the Sahara was not quite so dry as it is now. There were rivers then, which have dried up since. When there was water, food would grow, and people could keep sheep and cattle. In those days there were several large cities there. But when the water began to dry up, the ground became sandy and nothing would grow. Then, whenever the wind blew, the sand was carried along and began to cover up the houses and temples. The people had moved away because their food would not grow, and soon the sand completely covered the old cities.

The very first paragraph explains in detail that yes, the target audience is Africans.

It is hoped that this book and its companion volume dealing with non-African peoples will be the beginning of a series of simple, readable accounts for Africans of some of the various objects of general interest in the world of to-day. There are many such works published for the use of English and American children. But the native African has a totally different experience of life, and much that is taken for granted by a child of a Northern civilized land needs explanation to one used to tropical uncivilized surroundings. Again, the African knows the essential operations of everyday life in their simplest form, whereas the European knows them disguised by an elaborate industrial system. All this makes books written for English children almost unintelligible to a member of a primitive race.

Why do you call it propaganda, comprehensive propaganda no less, without having seem to have even read it very closely?

People just seem to be having this knee-jerk reaction to it in order to signal their adherence to the modern Regressive dogma.

I mostly lurk here but I see far more comments like this, essentially baiting arguments about touchy subjects like race, gender, sexuality, and the like. I suppose it's more me inferring that it's from a "cis, white male" perspective more than you imply it by quoting Africa like it's not a real place...