Bantu

This chapter discusses the course from the Zulu tribe to the Zulu nation. The formation of the Zulu nation has become so synonymous with the name of King Shaka who during his reign was able to amalgamate separated tribes and clans in South East Africa to pay allegiance to the Zulu empire. It also looks at what made Shaka a statesman and a nation builder in the early nineteenth century South Africa. Moreover, this chapter looks at the structure of tribes and clans and how these were amalgamated…

The Indian Ocean world can be dynamically split up into three major regions. Africa, South Asia and lastly the East Indies are three separate areas of the Indian Ocean that together make up a larger and more intricate picture of what life is like in the Indian Ocean. Through migration and trade these regions have helped form each other’s political, economic and social structure by encouraging new ideas and propelling each other into the modern age. When one thinks about the industrial…

The threats posed by Arabs in Ethiopia and Portuguese in Mozambique are among the major reasons behind my forefathers’ migration. Apart from a few who were Jewish, most of them practiced African traditional religions. Their languages varied from Bantu languages to Portuguese. Most of those who came from Ethiopia were somewhat educated compared to their counterparts from Mozambique. Concerning health issues, health has never been a major concern in my family; there has been no serious genetic…

I. Pre-reading Assignment 1. Big History is a course that tells about the 13.8 billion year during history. Big History interrelates professional thinking about the universe into a coherent story and looks at the entire span of history at different scales, up to the greatest scale. It is told chronologically using disciplinary tools. It’s a modern, scientific version of an origin story. It is a way to look at our history and understand human's place in the world that incorporates all of time.…

“Once you understand and appreciates other people’s cultural backgrounds, then you also connect with them more.” This anonymous is an example of what should be going on in America but the total opposite is occurring. Cultural appropriation is a concept which the use of parts of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon. Today in America there are so many incidents of this and I disagree with this because it keeps happening to African Americans this has…

Historically called “our peculiar institution” to dismiss the contradictions of legalized slavery and the freedoms outlined in the Declaration of Independence, slavery in the United States has a long, intricate history that must be studied to understand the broader history of America. Although many facets of slavery can be examined more closely to interpret the extensive effects it has had on American life, slave culture offers an insightful window into this complex story. The profound impact…

World War II and the atrocities that occurred due to the overbearingly anti-Semitic ideals of the German government and its social majority made the world hypersensitive to other acts of subjugation based on race in years following. The issue of racist legislation in South Africa was brought to, and discussed in, the United Nations in 1952, 6 years after India first voiced its concerns for the treatment of Indian people living in the nation. The South African government objected to any UN…

Bushman psychological construction of worldview is based largely on causality and consequence- both everyday action and mythology/folklore is structured in terms of human and non-human beings' actions as a cause of an event. Take, for example, the Early Race Narrative concerning the baboon's short, crooked tail. When baboons were like people, in the Early Race times, a child went hunting with a baboon. When they returned to a group of people, the baboon told them he had brought them gemsbok meat…

  The mighty Congo Empire, at Cote d’lvoire, Aka, the Ivory Coast of West Africa had the Burkina Faso warriors originally from the Bantu migration 600AD. They were skilled in horse riding and the use of the bow. Their earliest history starts with the Dagomba tribe neighboring the Boussansi, the Ninisi, the Gourounsi and the Kabisi their union brought about a great warrior kingdom called the Mossi. The greatest warriors of this Empire were the Wagadogo and the Yatenga. They used weapons such…

“Once you understand and appreciate other people’s cultural backgrounds, then you also connect with them more.” This anonymous quote is an example of what should occur in America, but the total opposite is happening, entire races are being ridiculed and judged as a result of a lack of understanding. This ill judgement is “cultural appropriation” which is a concept used when a member of one culture ignorantly judges a different culture which has become a negative phenomenon. In today’s society,…