Secondly, the impact of colonial powers creating colonial states and the depredation it had left on African minds, identity and people. ... In Pre-colonial Africa, people had several identities at the same time. ... The notion of identity within pre-colonial Africa was fluid and flexible; it tended to change with the environment of the individual. ... Not only did the colonial state provide a simpler way of understanding identity, the colonial state provided religion and schooling systems in order to conduct the behavior of the colonized subjects. ... It can be seen that the main Holy Grail...

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First of all is their identity as "true Africans" that springs from the belief of their "purity", unlike other cultures places in Africa like Kenya or Tanzania that experience an immense influence from Western culture, the Maasai are proud of their ability to maintain their purity, by sticking to their traditions. Second, and also very important factor of Cognitive Culture that is expressed in the article of the Maasai is their history, which shade light over their perception of identity among themselves and in compare to other cultures. ... It is evident through the understanding of the ...

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The implication of relegation of African languages by these foreign languages on the African continent is an unfortunate loss of one of the paramount ingredients of the African cultural and racial identity. ... More so, there is the challenge of how the African writer will advocate the cultural, literary and racial identity of his immediate environment in a foreign language? ...

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Female circumcision has stood as part of their cultural and ethnic identity; and some perceive it as a religious obligation. ... Kemunto and critics of globalization argue that the process will lead to a suppression of ones identity and create a blandly uniform world. ...

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Globalization With the growth of technology and transportation globalization is changing the structure of the urban setting and influences economic relationships that affect each individuals" quality of life. Cities currently are striving to separate and define their identity to appeal to the seem...

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For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its Constitution to the daily practices of its citizens--is a response to the absent/objectified presence of the black Other or, in her words, "to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence" (5). ...

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The quest for identity is another prevalent theme of slave narratives, but there are differences in formation of identity between the two authors presented here. ... Such details as birth dates, family ties among slaves and parentage, which are basic for constructing an identity, were withheld from slaves in order to prevent them from establishing a sense of self that could lead to alliances or organized rebellions. ...

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Despite these grave risks, its practitioners look on it as a major part of their culture and ethnic identity, and some perceive it as a religious obligation. ... Reason one being "female circumcision meets a religious requirement, 2) preserves virginity and family honor, and prevents immorality, 3) helps to maintain cleanliness, 4) preserves group identity and furthers marriage goals, including greater sexual pleasure for men. ...

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There was an effort by the slave owners to remove the identity of the slaves. ... A new name signified a denial of the slave's former identity and a confirmation of the owner's power7. ... Music played a significant role in African cultural identity during colonialism. ...

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Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... All of this adaptation was necessary to the survival of the slaves but did not eliminate the slaves need to maintain a certain sense of their own cultural identity, achieved by learning to integrate their own norms of behavior and beliefs with those of t...

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African & African-American Feminism, The Black Woman's Search for her Identity and Role in Society Although women have been involved to some degree in all kinds of organizations in Africa and America from church groups to liberation movements, in many ways it was the trade union movements that became the spawning ground for women organizers and in which women first rose to positions of importance in Africa. ...

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One possible answer draws on the different values of societies around the Atlantic and, more particularly, the way groups of people involved in creating a trans-Atlantic community saw themselves in relation to others in short, how they defined their identity. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took ...

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Key Features of Global Cities Globalization appears to have a home, and that is the new "global cities" emerging worldwide to host and drive it. Global or world cities are the place where the local meets the global, and they are crucial actors and points of contact for the new networks of the 2...

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Changing perspectives is an on going process throughout everyone's live. People's perspectives may change due to an event they experienced gradually over time such as maturity, or an event they experienced suddenly such as migrating to a new country. A person's perspective is based upon their backgr...

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This is mainly due to how the nations feel as though their identity is under threat because of issues such as immigration and supraNationalism, which is the ability of bodies with global jurisdictions to impose their will on nation states. ...

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At the height of Shaka's reign, he expanded the Zulu nation and began a campaign of conquest to unite all the neighboring clans in the region under his rule to give a sense of unity and identity among people of the different ethnic groups. ...

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After World War Two, in 1945 only Egypt, Ethiopia, and Liberia were independent in North Africa. However in World War Two many Africans fought for democracy alongside Europeans and were shown new ideas by the Europeans. Fighting for self-rule and freedom from tyranny for other countries inspired man...

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When one imagines the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it is easy to see the typical vision of European men probing the wilds of Africa for selections of potential slaves. Though this is what frequently comes to mind, this mental image is not entirely accurate. History often likes to portray all Africans...

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AFRICA ART Since the beginning Africa Art has played in integral part in American history. There are a variety of Africa art. Such variety includes rock art, images, wood sculptures, pottery masks and paintings to name a few. Africa contributed largely to one of the world's greatest civiliz...

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Originally born just outside of Johannesburg, Nadine began to gain a political identity at a young age as the daughter of two Jewish immigrant parents, who spent much of their own young adult lives under repression in Russia. ...

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So they stay in poverty, don't bother rising to a higher education, and it becomes a never-ending cycle, for taking away their individual identities and stereotyping them as a mass race is detrimental. ...

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Advances in economic wellbeing and growths in literacy rate are not the sole measures of social progress. While it can be argued that colonialism benefited Africans with respect to these dimensions of welfare, it can also be argued that colonialism impaired the overall quality of life in Africa. In ...

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AFRICAN CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD HISTORY "The events which transpired five thousand years ago, five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now. Five years or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event." [John Henrik Clarke] History is...

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The Afro-centric idea Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998 Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin the African Diaspora: African origins and New World identities Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. ...

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The Preservation of a Precious Culture The institution of slavery was very trying for newly captured Africans. They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. Once in the new world and on the...

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