One person could belong to a lineage, a clan, a village, religious group, chiefdom, and a language group. ... In the light of this, African customs, religion, language, heritage and way of life was discouraged. It can be seen that the main Holy Grail was to change the identity of Africans and by slowly assimilating Africans into European culture; a common example to illustrate this is the changing of African names to Christian ones. ... As Jomo Kenyatta illustrates: "When Europeans came to Africa, they had the bible and the Africans had the land. ... Impact of Racial Thinking in Africa ...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This allows us to suspect what he mentioned in his novel regarding Africa and Africans. ... In addition, his novel declares the Africans' total rejection of colonialism, brought to Africa under the wings of Christianity and civilization. ... He conveys the colonial view by describing Africans as savages. He presents them as people who have no names or language. ... For example, the author uses different terms from the language of Ibo. ...

• Word Count: 1344
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There are a plethora of languages that are spoken in Angola. There are forty-one living languages and there is one extinct language in Angola (Grimes 1). ... The Ovimbundu were formed from varying groups of mixed origin, like most African groups of any substantial size. ... In addition, the official language of Angola is Portuguese, rather than an indigenous language like Umbundu. ... Traditional African religions usually believe in a "high god," but the description of this deity varies between religions. ...

• Word Count: 1582
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Europeans were wasteful and unprepared to assert control over Africa. ... (Hampson XXiV) He also never specifies Africa as the location of Marlow's first voyage. ... He acquires a tragic vision from the shattering experience of being unmasked as just another European colonizer in Africa. ... While verbally pondering, he subverts the idea he attempts to assert after getting lost in his own figurative language. ... There was but one independent African state (Adelman 43). ...

• Word Count: 2001
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King Leopold the II claimed the Congo basin of Africa as Belgian territory and assumed control of that region. ... Many of the native Africans in these regions were killed, or lost their freedom, while the countries were stripped of their leaders. Imperialism of Africa generally had some economic benefits, but it led to slavery and mistreatment of the native people of Africa. ... Nationalism is a nation's pride in its culture, language, and history. ... (Derbyshire, web) The success of nations that had colonized African countries had brought a sense of pride to these European colonies. ...

• Word Count: 1260
• Approx Pages: 5

European countries wanted to acquire more unindustrialized areas in Asia and Africa which provided new markets and new sources of raw materials. ... This enabled the Europeans to extend their control over Asia and Africa, whereas it led to the introduction of advanced means of transportation and communication in Asia and Africa. ... According to them, it was only through political conquest and subjugation that the backward people of Asia and Africa could be civilized. 1The White Man's Burden was a poem expressing England and Frances attempts to civilize the African people i...

• Word Count: 1994
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the heyday of Atlantic slavery, a range of European countries established small forts on the East and West African coasts. ... Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Europe was still rapidly developing and therefore needed the raw materials that Africa had to offer. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. ... Amid imperialism, urbanization happened decently quickly in numerous African provinces. ...

• Word Count: 2178
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

The Europeans also faced serious challenges because of land blockades by mountains and jungles, language barrier, native resistance and labor challenges. ... The higher cost of African slave discouraged many miners to use them as workers in silver mines. ... In colonial Portuguese, importing African slaves was more profitable for the miners because of the close proximity to Africa and also the value of gold extracted was higher than silver. ... This brought influx of African slaves into the Brazil. ... By the end of century, the province had over 150,000 African slaves. ...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

OBJECTIVES This study is aimed at achieving the following objectives: 1) In this study, the language and narrative technique in both text will be examined; 2) To examine the psychological effects of identity crisis on an individual as depicted in the literary works and 3) To examine the setting in the literary works that encourages identity crisis. ... The first book was written by an African and the other, an African- American. ... Focus will be on the characters, language, narrative technique and setting. ...

• Word Count: 2395
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Relation of the colony to the mother-city Wherever the Greek went, he "retained his customs and language" (Bradley) and made a Greek polis (city state). ... Economic and social effects Agriculture Large expanses of fertile land were found around the shores of the Black Sea, at Cyrene in North Africa, in southern Italy and in Sicily. ... Colony of Cyrene in North Africa The colony of Cyrene on the coast of North Africa was founded in approximately 630 BC. ...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
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The middle class has sought to copy British culture and patterns of behavior while the lower black classes attempt to maintain their African heritage. ... She struggles to find whether her identity lies in her nationality, her social stratification, her race, her sex, her language, her individual history, or her family history. ... Many want to whiten the race by denying the African, even if you are black. ... He tends to separate himself from the African, African-American, all that seems to be barbarian, and ignorant. ...

• Word Count: 1717
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The relationship between Crusoe and Friday is also an important factor which explains what Joyce meant by his description of Crusoe, as Robinson attempts to convert Friday to Christianity, teach him the English language, and rid him of his savage tendencies. ... Robinson Crusoe, both in this use of slave labour on his plantation, and in his acceptance of the proposed voyage to obtain slaves from Africa, showed this archetypal attitude of a British colonist. Not long after Crusoe's voyage to Africa is shipwrecked, and he finds himself on what he believes to be an uninhabited island, his ...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The colonizers changed the Arabs way of life, the language, the countryside, the women, etc (some of the most sacred things). ... European attitudes towards Africa were particularly narrow, and even after the flood of European colonizers, there was the wash of self hatred, acrimony, and violence upon those who remained. ... "I want to have the smell of you in full - the smell of rotting leaves in the jungles of Africa... They see in Mustafa Sa'eed the African of the legends and fantasies. ... Is the childlike sense of awe and mystery which draws the European women to Mustafa S...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School