In the novel "Weep not Child" by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, the young boy, Njoroge, grows up in the mist of the Mau Mau war and the conflict between the African natives and the British colonial rulers. ... An example of how some Africans were starting to value education more was Nyokabi, Njoroge mother, "She was very proud to have her son in school. " All she wanted was the honor of saying, "Look, I've a son as good and as well educated as any you can find in the land. " However, Njoroge beliefs were different from his fathers and mothers. ... The novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong"o, Njoroge and his f...

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The major threat perceived by the Indian people was the threat to the native religions of India (The Indian Mutiny). ... This, along with the spread of western technology such as the telegraph and railways, had the people believing that the English were trying to convert them all to Christianity and get rid of their native religions (India Netzone). ... The British East India Company was able to annex a number of kingdoms, and princes were denied the right to adoption, so if they died with no biological son to take the throne of their kingdom, the company would annex it (India Netzone). ... T...

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His birth-name was Essaka and he was the son of an Ibo chieftain. Equiano was the youngest son of seven kids, six boys and one girl. ... The youngest son of a village leader, Equiano was born among the Ibo people in the kingdom of Benin, along the Niger River. ... He now saw himself deprived of all chance of returning to his native country. ...

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A) Believing they had the right from God to expand their territories, the Puritans oftentimes used force to take over the Native American lands in New England. ... For instance, the portrait of the Mason family wearing all fine clothes as a symbol of wealth deeply contrasts the portrait of Payne's son who is wearing casual clothes in the background setting of a natural landscape. ...

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Groups such as the Sons of Liberty did lead protests but they did not let any of their members carry weapons. ... The final social issue is that of Native Americans. ... To protest the Tea Act, colonists boycotted British tea, men that worked on docks would not let British East India Company ships touch the dock, and the Sons of Liberty threw the Boston Tea Party. ...

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The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... 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). ...

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