This is an experience only by the black race and we as white people will never know what it is like but we hear the stories to find out what it was like. ... Binta then gives birth to a boy that brings great joy to the whole family that was present. ... The mother decides to call him baby boy till the Omaru decides on the name in eight days. Omaru asks the chief weather to name the boy based on a person or a thing. ... He then finds out that he would be sailing a new ship called the Lord Liganear that would have a cargo consisting mostly of black slaves. ...

• Word Count: 677
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Knut Striak Cry Freedom - Intro - Analysis of the first part The first shots of the Intro of the film "Cry Freedom", based on the same named book by Steven Riley and the personal experiences of the journalist Woods, show a black screen with the title in white letters, followed by the names of the actors. ... The next long shot shows a boy walking towards the viewer through a dusty street, you can still hear men talking and the singing in the background. ... These photos are supposed to show the living conditions of Black Africans in crossroad towns, shanty towns or the border towns for ...

• Word Count: 566
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In 1990 the South African government took major steps toward the abolition of apartheid, including lifting the ban on black political parties. ... Sam and Willie are two black men who work in the tea room and Hally is a young white boy whose parents own the tea room. ...

• Word Count: 338
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The arrowheads that the man and his boy find symbolize what humanity once was. ... Then the boy comes across this coin "crusted" with debris and sentiment. ... In the world the boy knows there is no use or need for such a concept. ... This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. ... The man and his boy find the old man as they are traveling. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Oates describes Nat Turner as a boy, as a man, and the effect of his death on society around him. ... After the rebellion that Nat Turner initiated was over, many blacks were killed from the fear that whites maintained afterwards. The fear of revolt was one of these, over a total of two hundred blacks died in South Ampton County due to the circumstances caused by the rebellion. Many of these blacks were innocent and were slain because of the fear that Nat Turner had caused among the white community. ... Almost no black was spared in the onslaught that ensued after, and before long the numb...

• Word Count: 1072
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Life for whites in apartheid south Africa was a paradise; fueled by cheap black labor and plentiful natural resources; as the advertising jingle had it: " they go together in the good old RSA: braaivleis; rugby; sunny skies and Chevrolet". ... Greg, Joao, ken and Kevin (the uncle of a present Michaelhouse boy) all became press photographers, professional witnesses (if you like) to the bloody and vicious civil war that consumed the south African townships in the late 80's and 90's; Their job was stressful, terrifying, extremely dangerous yet deeply exciting. ... Suddenly a boy no o...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

White-dominated South Africa arose on the wealth of the gold and diamond mines, using blacks for cheap labor. ... One day, the little boy climbs into the razor wire coil with innocent intentions, only to be severely injured. Gordimer uses the boy as a metaphor for the next generation of white South Africans who have been shielded from the vicious reality of apartheid. ...

• Word Count: 1030
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book is in essence about the hopes and dreams of a young boy that was affected by the outside world and how the outside world changes the values and beliefs of a person. In the novel "Weep not Child" by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, the young boy, Njoroge, grows up in the mist of the Mau Mau war and the conflict between the African natives and the British colonial rulers. ... Howlands could make herself cheap enough to go with black men for money? ... In his opinion as stated a white women is above a black male therefore, she must lower herself to him be with him. ...

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Black Social Movement "Hip- Hop as a Revolution" Music has played a significant role upon culture for Black Americans. ... Every pop group and boy- band that is selling albums today is attempting to be part of the revolution that is hip- hop. ... Of course they can, and it will be easier for them too, but the question is, will they successfully change the whole perception of music, as black folk has done to music since the beginning of time? ... "- Method Man Method Man, and his group the Wu- Tang Clan has raised many issues in the lives of Black Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Oracle was so powerful that a young boy, Ikemefuna, was sacrificed because it said it must be so. ... The new religion caused Blacks to reject and become ashamed of both their culture and themselves. ...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A few examples of the downhill spiral the book takes, would be Okonwo kills Ikemefuna, the boy that comes to live with him and his family. ... They did not refer to the Africans as people or human beings, instead they referred to them as "black limbs" or other names (Achebe). ...

• Word Count: 1332
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School