African people

the class African Women Writers. Adichie discusses growing up in post-colonial Africa and how there were still a lot of colonial influencers, especially on her education. She read and subsequently wrote books about little blonde girls with blue eyes, who ate apples and played in the snow. She then goes on to talk about how she personally could relate with none of these experiences, she ate mangos, did not have blonde hair or blue eyes and had never seen snow. Eventually, she found African…

collection of geographical zones is the world’s second largest continent, Africa. With over 500 different ethnic groups, the people of Africa are perhaps even more diverse than the land in which they reside. Each group has its own unique customs, languages, political systems, and more. Despite all of the groups’ differences, many share a common understanding of the world. This African Worldview is wonderfully unique, and has concepts that are both familiar and foreign to those in other parts of…

History did not show mercy to the African people. Nor did Europe or the rest of the world. Why is it that the blood was shed where peace and culture prevailed? Angela Thompsell, writer of the article “Why was Africa called the dark continent” (ThoughtCo. September, 2017) states that the saying “Africa the dark continent” was only a rooted myth. During the late 1800s and 1900s Europeans believed that the continent had a somewhat dark spirit and that the Africans were closer to being barbaric…

The painting I chose to do an analysis on is “Kneeling Mother with a Child at Her Breast”. In the painting I see a African women with dark skin kneeling down on both knees holding her baby in her left arm with one hand behind head and the other on the buttocks. She is kneeling on a round grey mat while the baby is sucking on her nipple. She is also starring in her baby’s eyes with somewhat of a grin on her face. Both her and her baby are butt naked in this painting. The baby has his/her eyes…

Africa began with the Berlin Conference, a meeting of thirteen European powers in November of 1884 to divide African territory among the European powers, and by 1912, all of Africa except for Ethiopia and Liberia was in European hands. The conquering of nations was justified by the civilizing mission, and led to the development of the notion that Europeans were inherently superior to Africans. This mindset is seen in Jules Ferry’s speech to the French Chamber of Deputies on March 28, 1884, in…

The New Versus The Old During the early stages of religious exchange and colonial expansion, African communities split between those who accepted the European’s new religious and education practices versus those who stayed true to their traditions. Ngugi uses the river as symbol of the divide between the village. While the divide between those who followed the Europeans new order and the villagers who followed the traditional way started off small, there soon became a larger and larger gap…

benefit off of the native people and the manner of doing so is far from humane. They do so by going into Africa and becoming the ruling force trying to civilize and colonize the indigenous people. Season of Migration to the North, however, presents two African men who are both trying to take themselves away from European life and integrate into African society. In Heart of Darkness the Europeans view themselves as top of the line, clean cut, civilized beings and see the Africans as uncivilized…

The American notion of Africa and Africans seemingly has always been unapologetically filled with convoluted racist overtones and simplifications. From being titled the land without law, civility, and modernity to being the land of exotic primitivism and savagery, Africa continues to be a widely misappropriated continent. Not only was the American psyche regarding Africa shaped by colonial imaginations and mythology, the sentiment heavily persists without much change. The misconceptions of this…

imperialism is over, if the new model that has replaced it truly serves the worlds developing peoples any better is for far sharper minds than my own to decide, but from the cheap seats it looks like a cheaper and more morally flexible way to steal a regions natural resources without even the infrastructure build up that usually accompanied a colonization effort. What price is too high to join the modern world? Do people have a right to opt out if they so choose? I feel as if we have not found…

trade, to keep up with the rising demand from European colonies that needed labor for plantations. The slave trade depended entirely upon the relationship between African leaders to the Charter companies and private traders to achieve the numbers for the high demand for slaves that Europe called for. These demands pressed upon local African power systems to provide the numbers needed for slaves that served…