NOTES ON 

 WEST AFRICAN CATEGORIES 



THE FORMULA 



THE formula which I give in " At the Back of the 

 Black Man's Mind" is formed perpendicularly of 

 i + 6 + i or eight parts. Each of these parts have a 

 complementary extension of three parts, making it 

 4 + (6x4) + 4, or of thirty-two parts in all. It is as 

 under : 



o 



1 6 parts 



1 6 parts 



132 parts 



The meaning of the formula appears to me to be 

 that all things created, procreated or produced must 



