These hard and honest natives have no choice but to obey whites until they are used up and dead. ... These whites represent evil powers over the innocent, hardworking blacks in their native land. ... To his eyes, the white buildings are the tombstones because of the Romans who had conquered England long ago, took control over the land, and killed many on the very land. ...
These hard and honest natives have no choice but to obey whites until they are used up and dead. ... These whites represent evil powers over the innocent, hardworking blacks in their native land. ... To his eyes, the white buildings are the tombstones because of the Romans who had conquered England long ago, took control over the land, and killed many on the very land. ...
They also believed that Africa had very little settled land and the land that was inhabited was inhabited by uneducated and "uncivilized" (by their definition) African cultures. ... Europe had its classical and modern structures, cleared land and flourishing industry, while central Africa was plainly, a jungle. ... If Conrad were a thoroughgoing racist he would have given the dead helmsman to the cannibals and would not have had pity for the treatment of Africans. ...
Many powerful men signed treaties with native chiefs that permitted them personal control over the African land. ... The Boers, and the British conflicted all over the land to find raw materials found in Southern Africa. ... The British banned such practices as Suttee in which a woman would throw herself into the burning ashes of her already dead husband. ... Native tribes as well as several western powers were all trying to gain as much land as possible. ... The western civilization had no esteem that the land they were altering was not their own....
The first owners that he -2 was with were from Africa and their land resembled that of the land that Equiano grew up on. ... He noted towards the end of his memoirs, "They still retain most of their native customs; they bury their dead, and put victuals, pipes, and tobacco, and other things, in the grave with corpse, in the same manner as in Africa" (Allison 145). ... "I was astonished at the wisdom of the white people in all things I saw, but was amazed at their not sacrificing, or making any offerings, and eating with unwashed hands, and touching the dead" (Allison 64). ...
Many masks are associated with religious ceremonies, myth, dance, rituals or are concerned with spirits of the dead, rites, or even curing sickness. ... According to one of the various legends, the bulging forehead and form of the mask imitate the heads of pygmies, who are the recognized owners of the land. ... National Geographic photographers filmed the dance for the dead at a massive memorial service for the victims, in which dancers wore masks such as those in the collection In the present time masks are less important due to the fact that humans have become more civilized and intellec...
In the poem "A Far Cry From Africa", the author, Derek Walcott, creates the universal idea that no amount of pressure can change how a person really feels on the inside. Derek Walcott uses poetic devices such as imagery, point of view, and symbolism in order to convey the theme. This poem is about...
He then goes on to charge Leopold's regime of the following crimes: fooling Africans into signing over their land, having military bases cause massive amounts of death and devastation, unnecessary cruelty to prisoners, lying about the construction of hospitals and schools, rape, and slavery (ironic since the fazade Leopold put on was indicative of being anti-slavery). ... Once there, he found massive amounts of dead workers and destroyed villages. ...
