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Ghana - Under Economic Underdevelopment After its independence in 1957, Ghana appeared relatively prosperous compared with many other African countries. Agricultural crops, including yams, grains, cocoa, oil palms, kola nuts, and timber, formed the base of Ghana's economy, which was moderately sta...
The experience of the trans-Atlantic slave trade took the enslaved away from their roots. ... Nonetheless, names were altered over the years into a form acceptable to both the slave as a reminder of his roots and to his master, as something he could pronounce e.g., 'Ebo Jane' or 'Mandigo Jack'8. ...
BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the whole. One important goal of a biology curriculum should be to educate students about nature, in order to promote empathy and support for the natural world around us, and the interrelationship of all aspects of nature must be an integral part of the message delivered. Biomes (bioclimatic zones) ...
The statistics of AIDS affliction in Africa are devastating - 70% of the world's AIDS cases are in Africa. A multi-pronged approach to prevent the spread of the disease while treating it and effectively caring for the millions of people affected by HIV/AIDS is a top priority for doctors and other he...
Throughout his narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlie Marlow has a chance to encounter the indigenous peoples of Africa. Marlow sees them as poor, devastated savages or in other words, the Other, using many racial and degrading terms to describe the appearances of these local people...
Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. This system uses the investment of money or 'capital' to produce hefty profit for its owners and shareholders to reinvest in the system to generate a seemingly endless cycle of wealth1. It has been commentated by many that the system leads to the main body of available wealth and power in the world to be held by an elite minority. There is no query as to whether such a system exists today as that...
Introduction Modern African states have several problems ranging from corruption, to armed conflict, to stunted structural development. The effects of colonialism have been offered as a starting point for much of the analysis on African states, but the question of why African states are particular...
BRINGING OF SLAVERY The European navigations of the fifteenth century in the Atlantic pioneered a new and virtually unprecedented chapter in human history. Not only did the European sailors provide direct ocean routes to areas that had been in contact with Europe through more expensive and diffic...
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 plantations Africans had to deal with the continual pressures of enslavement and dominance from another culture. Slave masters intervened continually in the lives of their slaves, from directing their labor to approving or disapproving marriages. Some masters made elaborate written rules, and most...
Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. Into these ships he put the three hundred black Africans he had abducted from Sierra Leo...
Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...
Initiation rites, passage rites of age-sets that count succeeding generations, bio-social rites that socially domesticate sexuality and make the youth ready for community or national service were all targeted because of their 'demonic' rituals and because they were the roots of insurrection against colonial governments by ethnic nationalities. ...
The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...