The Department of Home Affairs was responsible for the cataloging of the population during this period. ... All political rights, including voting, held by an African were restricted to the designated homeland. ... Blacks would also lose any right of participation with the South African Parliament, which held complete authority over the homelands. ...
When European settlers came to the new world hoping to escape religious persecution, amass great wealth, or escape the poverty they experienced in their home countries. ... The presiding chief of the Onondaga's also held the position of head chief of the confederacy. ...
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. ... It is estimated that between 25 and 30 million people, were taken from their homes and sold into a life of slavery. ... In scenes mirrored across Europe over this period in history the majority of the wealth generated from the slave trade was held by a capital owning elite in France, one family that prevailed in this industry was the Montaudoinsm's, a trading family that alone were responsible for the sending of 357 ships to cultivate slav...
Britain's attitude toward African expansion doesn't really change in the last two decades of the 19th century from its long held overall view of keeping Africa on a shoestring. ... Egyptian mismanagement of the economy and military and a continually more strained relationship with France who had held considerable sway since the Napoleonic era in Egypt created an opportunity for England to become more important in Egyptian affairs which the English desired because of the importance of the Suez Canal as an eastern trade route (Porter, p. 92-93). ...
It's rather a memento (and a pernicious one) of colonialism: that just as the Imperial and colonial nations used to trade between the "home" country and the various colonies so too those colonies have their trade oriented outwards to those former colonial powers. ... The epidemic is taking place far from the big safari destinations in eastern and southern Africa-as far or farther than the homes of many European tourists (see map). ...
Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries. Often performed without anesthetic under septic conditions by lay practitioners with little or no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, female circumcision can cause death or...
In early 1966, an even more important conference was held, sponsored by the Consultative Council on the South Africa, which was based in New York and closely closely tied to the American Committee headed by George Houser. ... Because of its support of desegregation and legal equality at home, the Kennedy Administration was at least verbally committed to similar objectives abroad. ...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...
