12 NOTES ON WEST AFRICAN CATEGORIES 



with the order of the categories as given in " At the 

 Back of the Black Man's Mind" and " Nigerian Studies" 

 or not, i.e. the order of procreation and the seasons. 

 If it does, then I think we may conclude that the 

 so-called Christian influence, which some of my critics 

 suggest, must date back many thousands of years, and 

 that its connection, even with Genesis, must be a very 

 remote one. For, as I have said before, I lay no claim 

 to the creation of the order of the seasons, upon which 

 order the categories of thought, both among the Bavili 

 and the Yoruba, seem to me to depend. 



