1. Negritude
"But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful for those who lie. Those nabobs." These words, spoken by Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, describe the disgu...
Africa, a nation of immense natural resources, has been the victim of imperialism for many years. Europeans, declaring themselves "missionaries of God," have worked to pursue manifest destiny and bring God to the "savage" Africans. In order to do the Lord's work, in the 19th century, European countries divided African lands amongst themselves, exploited their then still undeveloped resources, and enslaved the African people, thus furthering their own commercial interests and expanding their kingdoms. Even after the de-colonization of Africa, the boundaries of the newly born states drawn...
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) countries and inflation of 2,9 percent. Dollar per capita income grew 73 percent during the decade. The 1970s were turbulent years internationally and the domestic economy grew by only 3,2 per cent per annum (versus 3,4 percent in OECD countries). Relative economic performan...
Lines 22-25 These lines are difficult to interpret, but they appear to be aimed at those judging the Mau Mau uprising from a distance - observers who could somehow accept brutality as necessary and who are aware of a dire situation but wipe their hands, or refuse to become involved, in it. ...