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Analyzing the Uganda Nakaseke MCT from an Inclusiveness Perspective Introduction and Background Due to differences in technological advancement and economic policies, levels of development and degrees of economic growth have historically fluctuated among countries. There is division between developed and developing countries creating major gaps and economic inequalities between countries. Also, there are inequality within countries, excluding many groups and individuals from the process of…

Anthropology is the education of humans. Through the study of anthropology, our goal is to better understand human culture and the evolutionary aspects of human biology. Within the training of anthropology, there are four major subfields. These subfields are: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, and Physical (Biological) Anthropology. This paper will be informing us on these four subfields of anthropology so that we may have a healthier understanding of each one.…

what good for the junior or underage people. It 's called "Respect of elder and of the birthright" which gives more rights to the eldest over the rest of the family or community’s members. If my dad is originally from the center of the country called Benin where I was born, I was raised in the south of the country. In the south, the culture of diversity has had a huge impact on my way of seeing things, speaking and behaving. One of the major influences of the south is on my main language, the…

West Africa is a poor, helpless region who is living in poverty. West Africa has poor education for those who can afford schooling. Slavery still continues today, as hundreds of people used as hard labor. The topography is beautiful, covering 85% of West Africa with deserts, semi-deserts, steppe, grasslands, forests, and rain forests. The government is a federal republic, and the states in the region is far away from each other and the religion revolves around the everyday lifestyle. Culture is…

INTRODUCTION. Pre colonial Africa was has varied has the continent itself. Different circumstances produced different societies with different tradition, customs, and politics these societies rose, fell and adapted as the centuries passed. Despite this variety, it is possible to divide political organisation amongst these communities into two broad categories states and stateless societies. Low population densities and the production of relatively small economic…

Marcus Rediker takes us on a difficult journey of what it was like to travel the middle passage for a slave from 1700-1808 in his riveting book, The Slave Ship: A Human History. He focuses heavily on the calculated barbarity of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and how it gave birth to capitalism with the commodification of humans as goods to be bought and sold on the open market. Rediker gives us a unique and unexplored perspective of the slave trade to give us a sense of the violence that…

The year is 1834, as the hot sun beams down on your freshly stricken back, sweat drips down your spine, joined by the blood that spills from your open wounds. In the distance, you can hear the crack of a whip breaking the sound barrier, followed by the horrid screams of your spouse, friend, or family member, as it lays into their bare naked body. Knowing there’s nothing you can do, you hang your head in sorrow and continue on with your daily routine. Unfortunately, this is a life many African…

How people understand colonialism is largely dependent on the cultural and societal context in which they inhabit. While the colonized peoples are forced to experience the true effects of colonialism firsthand, the people of the colonizing nation only experience colonialism from the periphery and only experience its positive effects. Therefore, their understanding of colonialism is shaped by the narrative created by those in power, those who reap the most benefits from the colonization of…

Slavery itself was an evil greater in scope and magnitude than most people imagine and as a result, its place in history is radically different from the way it is usually portrayed. Mention slavery and immediately the image that arises is that of Africans and their descendants enslaved by Europeans and their descendants in the Southern United States - or at most, Africans enslaved by Europeans in the Western Hemisphere. No other historic horror is so narrowly construed. No one thinks of war,…

5. Anioma Festivals <<<IMAGE>>> One of Several Anioma Traditional Attires <<<IMAGE>>> Unique to Aniomaland, Akwa Ocha is an important apparel in the socio-cultural life of the people The people of Anioma have a very rich cultural heritage. All through the nine Local Government Areas of Delta State that constitute Aniomaland, there are several cultural festivals and other traditional carnivals, which provide deep insight into the history, lives and indeed…