Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Strikes in Mombasa, Lagos, Dar es Salaam, and other cities between 1945 and 1950 led colonial municipal governments to push for more social benefits for African city residents. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. However even in these social orders, the vast majority were occupied with horticulture in provincial towns or residences. ... These progressions frequently tested ex...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... The essay submits that tourism and globalization may be argued to be a deadly mix for indigenous peoples or host communities due to the negative impacts it has brought about such as commodification and erosion of culture, loss of cultural identity, social problems suc...

• Word Count: 1995
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