Bantu

Malawi was settled by early homo sapiens as early as 50,000 years ago, but the recorded history of the area doesn’t begin until 13th to 15th century with the arrival of the Bantu people. The Bantu who immigrated to the area made significant contributions with the creation of a centralized governmental system. In 1480, the Maravi Confederacy was created. During the next two centuries, this confederacy would spread its influence throughout many parts of southern and central Malawi and at one time…

transformations can be the Indian Ocean, which allowed cultures mixing, they also traded with Portugal, and ironworking occurred, too. It’s social transformation is the Bantu migrations from the syncretism with other countries culture and with Islam. Swahili Griots are storytellers that speak the language Swahili that came from Arabic and Bantu. Lastly, North Africa social transformations are slavery that was facilitated by bebers “Arab people” which occurred on the Indian Ocean trade route. One…

Over in Africa, it was Nelson Mandela who stepped up for his country, and ended Apartheid. Apartheid was a system of segregation enforced by Europeans in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The National Party were the orchestrators of it all, as the Bantu Authorities Act was one of the first…

The definition of a patient zero is the person identified as the first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak or related cases. In other words patient zero is the first person aware to the world of a disease. With the information received from the NPR RadioLab podcast episode “Patient Zero - Updated” the conclusion can be made that the more information society gains about diseases and their origins, fear and anxiety about the unknown grows. The first disease discussed in the…

Education Power is productive it is a means of producing the truth and it cannot be conceived of as separate from knowledge (Braham & Janes, 2002). It is well documented that education is power and if one is educated chances of progressing up the income hierarchy are higher there by over coming the income inequality. Thus to come back to our societies reflected in medium, the apartheid and the Jim Crow systems forced blacks to attend different schools from the whites. The black schools were…

Madeleine Bell Per. 3 3.1 Unlike the Classical Era, trade networks in the post-Classical Era expanded in geographical range. They expanded due to the growth of trade in luxury goods such as silk and cotton textiles, the innovations in transportation and commercial technologies such as caravan organization, the use of a compass, larger ship designs,new forms of credit, and commercial infrastructures like the Grand Canal in China. 3.1.0.1 New technologies that accompanied these…

SECTION A Interview with Eva Tsitsi about apartheid. ET (Eva Tsitsi) and OS (Otshepeng Setuke) OS: Good evening ma’am. How are you today? ET: Good evening to you too. I’m very well, thank you. How are you? OS: I’m great thanks. Let’s get started, shall we? Please give us a brief biography of your life. ET: I was born and bred in Phokeng, schooled in Phokeng, I basically spent my whole life in Phokeng. OS: What is Apartheid in your own opinion? ET: Two words, apart means separation and…

out and spread to other areas. The first humans on Earth were said to be living on the continent of Africa. As the population grew people migrated. They migrated to other areas in Africa and eventually to other continents. Lasting 1500 years, the Bantu Migration joined many groups together due to their powerful weapons. Bantus used metal weapons which influenced many others to join their tribe. They left their teachings to be part of a tougher tribe. While cutting Africa’s population in half,…

theories of leadership, transactional; achievement-oriented, transformational; supportive and participative and charismatic; gifted. Above mentioned theories will be expanded in detail and apply them to a well-known charismatic leader called Stephen Bantu Biko. Certain…

amongst their proverbs which say. “bitso lebe keseromo” (bad name is ominous, In Zulu, traditionally name givers usually give names “personal names” after a certain events or circumstance that were relevant at time of the child birth. IsiZulu is major Bantu language spoken in South Africa with the estimated 10 million speaker. Zulu’s are mostly found in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) region of South Africa. Names in African society have a meaning, unlike western names whose purpose is primary to label.…