African Union

The 1960s and 70s brought forth a wave of decolonization in the Africa, but it did not mark the end of external intervention in the African continent. As Elizabeth Schmidt states, “the predicaments that plague the continent today are not solely the result of African decisions but also the consequence of foreign intrusion into African affairs” (1). Over recent decades, foreign intrusion in Africa has taken on multiple forms: from explicit political intervention, economic aid, and humanitarian…

provinces under the African National Parliament. Within the National Parliament there are two houses of delegates, which are called the National Assembly of Provinces and the National Council of Provinces. These houses are further broken down into 13 different political parties to make up the African National Parliament. Shared between the two houses of Parliament are 400-delegate seats. The majority stake holder in reference to the number of seats taken is held by the African National Congress…

There, I will visit the Black Cultural Archives Institution and explore the histories of members of African and Caribbean descent in Britain. The collections available will allow me to gain a deeper understanding on what it meant to be Black in Great Britain. There, I will also request a tour and if given the opportunity, interview the tour guide with the…

Gibson. "Africa and globalization: marginalization and resistance"Journal of Asian and African Studies. Sage Publication, 2004. This article examines the effects of globalization and capitalism on African political and socioeconomic development in our modern times. The article argues that globalization marginalized the African societies because of lack of investment and real opportunities. It destroyed the African traditional economies. The author also highlights the discriminatory policies of…

(1) WHAT ARE MY RACIAL, ETHNIC, NATIONAL ORIGINS? I am a proud citizen of South Africa. I grew up in Gauteng in Johannesburg. I am Afrikaans speaking and English as my second language. But Afrikaans is my native language. Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It progressed from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it progressively began to develop unique…

history that separated Africans from other civilizations. By simply disregarding the continent past Europeans created a people without a history. The research for this paper examines the underpinning and earliest…

I just woke up from an incredibly vivid dream of Africa. I even had that feeling of freedom, of timelessness, in the dream, which might be the thing I miss most about Africa - that feeling of timelessness. In Kenya I was living in the present moment. I must admit that I was a little depressed to wake up from my dream to find myself back in this house in Orono, Maine. Not that I’m unhappy in my present life, but I still dream, both figuratively and literally, of living a simple existence in…

Frederick Cooper’s Africa since 1940 focuses on the transition from colonialism to modern day Africa. It attempts to explain how the history of Africa has contributed to the current state of the African continent. Some argue that colonialism’s impact has completely shaped the history of Africa and has made Africa what it is today. Others argue that Africa has greatly changed since that era and the state of the continent today is not a result of colonialism. Frederick Cooper’s argument is…

John Gibbs St. Clair Drake was an African American sociologist born 2 January 1911, in Suffolk Virginia. St. Clair Drake was raised by his father, a Southern Baptist preacher in a multi-racial neighborhood. The St. Clair Drakes moved northward to Pittsburg in 1914, as a large population of African Americans from the south did the same. While in Pittsburg, St. Clair Drake lived in a middle-class setting, with access to more than enough reading material to form a long-lasting habit of reading and…

people can Either Live in Security or Prosperity, But not both. Why is this case? Why has Political Violence Become Such a Prevalent Phenomenon across Africa today? In this book, author tries to find reasons for such prosperous political violence in African states. He explains it from different perspective and unites it in one overriding reason. His arguments are strongly supported by the historical data.…