Kwame Nkrumah, first president of the Republic of Ghana, and the scourge in his heyday, of what he termed “neo-colonialism”, is said to have had a painting displayed prominently in the main hall of his home. It is said to have depicted an outlined of a map of Africa in the midst of which an awakening black giant was shaking off his chains. Fleeing from the continent in terror were three pale Europeans: The first one grasped a suitcase, signifying the colonial administrator; the second in his white cassock, was, unmistakeably, the missionary; and the third was the anthropologist. This painting, needless to say, epitomized the feelings of most colonial peoples — at least those whose feelines could have any significant consequences — towards anthropologists and anthropology.