Benin

Declining State of the Nigeria Health System From Nigeria’s independence in 1960, traditional medicine had been a big part of the health care system in Nigeria focusing mainly on the curative, rather than preventive care. In the years following the independence, about 10-15% of the Nigerian population was covered by any form of modern health care services. These services were concentrated in the urban areas to the detriment of the rural areas. At that time, only about 50% of the urban population…

The culture of Ghana includes much of the variation of musical theme and Ghanaian people. English is the required language of Ghana and also the basic language for education in Ghana. Akan language is the recognised language taught in schools as a local language. Although there is more than one local language, the Akan language is what is recognised and taught as the local language in Ghana. The different ethnic groups are what give Ghana a rich culture. Ghana is made up of about seventy-five…

about different heritages and my own. I find it funny though, that there are so many differences in nationalities, when our genetics are all mixed. I recently did an AncestryDNA test to discover all my ethnicities and I found out that I'm 13% from Benin/Togo, countries that i had never even heard of. I also found out, to my delight that the 17% of me is from Italy/Greece. I was very excited to know this because ever since I read all the Percy Jackson books I've loved to learn about Greece and…

slaveholders. Another key factor in how the slaves were treated was religion and it’s grasp on their master’s life. The Atlantic Slave Trade According to Nash, the slave trade officially began in 1472 when a portuguese captain reached the coast of Benin and received royal permission to trade gold, ivory and slaves. As far as the Africans were concerned, this was no new concept for they had been practicing this kind of trade regionally and across their continent. This is an important note because…

Every humans have different identity, such as gender, class, race, sexuality, religion and nationality. Each of these things gives us a form of uniqueness.identify can result in personal experiences which requires acknowledged of ones connection to help figure out corruption, policies, and communities that are traumatized as a target of social injustice. Identity helps us recognize the structural realities of inequality, identity can support us in aiming towards change. Growing up I was always…

Chapter seven of the text book begins with the simple premise, that “the Atlantic world was one of commodities.” (p. 218) This simple statement belies the complexity of the effect that trade had upon the whole of the Atlantic region. It is this complexity that chapter seven attempts to convey within thirty five short pages. Given such limitations the resultant text does an admirable job of conveying many of the basic historiographic ideas relating to the vast repercussions relating to the…

was captured into slavery at the age of 11, who later acquired his freedom and wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African in 1789. He was the youngest son of a village leader born in the kingdom of Benin along the Niger River. Surprisingly, his family owned slaves, but there was always a threat of being abducted and becoming someone else's slave. Exactly this happened when Equiano and his sister were at home alone one day. The document was…

The man may have good characters with good family upbringing but lazy with some house chores. The woman or any of her family members can teach him in love. For Better; For Worse If you manipulate any person either by the use of charms, hypnotism or by human knowledge with enticing words, the resultant effect would be evil. Such evil could be likened to a double-edged sword. When a man because of the money he has, charms a woman, if by stroke of ill luck or by natural phenomenon, the money…

In the eyes of strangers to the religion, Santeria may only resemble Voodoo rituals, with no eternal purpose for the Santeros. So what exactly is the perennial goal for Santeros? And how is that goal reached? The purpose of Santeria is to obtain three levels. Each level requires a separate ceremony be performed and results in different degrees of protection, power, and knowledge. Completion requires reaching all three levels, but a participant can stop at any one. The steps or roles are: 1.…

In the Benin Home, Ishmael is thinking to himself, “When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who listen to it. She said, “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion…