It also crosses ethnic and cultural lines and is performed in many countries around the world, but is most prevalent in Africa. ... Africa encompasses innumerable social groups, each possessing different foundations for their religion, culture, and tradition. ... Despite the differences, a commonality exists among these African groups and their reasons for practicing female circumcision: Islamic and other African religions are one of the primary foundations of female circumcision in Africa. ... Furthermore, a number of non-recorded, religious fables describe the early foundations of female...

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Africans owned other Africans from different tribes, and people from all races, including whites, were enslaved. ... The treatment of slaves varied across religions. ... For example, Arabs viewed their slaves as inferior and most slaves entering the Arab world were black. ... "Christian-Muslim conflict, international commerce, sugar and New World incursion were foremost in creating circumstances whereby the African emerged as the principal source of servile labor, laying the foundations of the modern world. " (Gomez 2005, 59) It was common for a mother and daughter, working in a yam field nea...

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The process of African colonies gaining their independence resulted in human resources. ... When war broke out in Europe in 1914 at the start of World War 1, British and French troops prepared to seize Germany's colonies in Africa.... When World War 1 ended, African soldiers often received little or no compensations for lost limbs or battle injuries (www.dw.de). ... In Africa they are used to describe the different stages of European authority before and after de-colonization ended (exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu). ... Because of its reliance on external sources of demand and investment ...

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