Benin

Human Rights Issue: Infanticide The Right to Life of Children is directly violated in infanticide. Females were and still are the more preferred targets. There have been cases against female infanticide still today. Multiple reasons as to why these kinds of cruelty against children are legal have been given. Evidence for multiple familiar places has been found. "Infanticide is the act of deliberately causing the death of a very hound child (under 1 year old)." This was a worldwide practice…

Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, written by Himself relives the story of a young man taken from his home in Africa and was put into slavery at the age of eleven. Olaudah Equiano 's quest of being a slave to buying his own freedom was accomplished by not only his physical work, but by both his religious views and scholarly ways. “Equiano is truly a man of conflict, and his feelings towards slavery are complex and sometimes…

AN OVERVIEW OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE GOLDCOST: (1482 – 1957) 2.0: Introduction: This chapter presents the political and economic history of the Gold Coast. It assesses the historical and nativity of its inhabitants and also the background to the arrival of the first missionary to the Gold Coast. The section on pre-colonial Gold Coast explains who the people of Gold Coast were; their land and indigenous economic activities before the arrival of the Europeans. Whiles the…

Polygamy is a marriage that includes more than two partners. There are two different forms of polygamy: polygyny, when a man is married to more than one woman, and polyandry, when a woman is married to more than one husband at a time. The term that refers to those who practice polygamy is polygamists. Some cultures have no problem with polygamy, and they are fully accepting. In general, polygamy is legal in some countries in the form of polygyny. On the other hand, other cultures and countries…

Afi was born in Togo. Togo is a small country located right in between Ghana and Benin. She moved to the United States when she young. Afi is the only Togolese person I have met here on campus. While Brandon said that the people around him heavily influence his degree of Africanness Afi feels differently, “I always try to emphasis my…

unique and has potential for being a powerful country. Nigeria has a vast array of issues however with creative reform policies and support it could develop into a great nation. Physical Geography Nigeria is located in West Africa neighboring Benin, Niger and Cameroon, with a coast on Gulf of Guinea in the South Atlantic Ocean. Its coordinates are 9.0820° N, 8.6753° E. Located in the tropics, Nigeria has a tropical hot climate. The temperatures differ concurrent to the seasons of the year.…

As the sociologist James Wilson says “marriage is a socially arranged solution for the problem of getting people to stay together and care for children that the mere desire for children and sex that makes children possible does not solve” (trace,1993:43-44). Marriage is the fundamental building block of all human civilization. Marriage supposed to tie a man and a woman together and strengthen their relationship. However, today the world is seeing a new era where marriage is no longer considered…

Slavery at the Cape The Cape as we know it today would not be as it is if it weren’t for our past, if it weren’t for slavery. Slavery played a significantly important role in the history of the Cape as many of its inhabitants today have ancestry dating back to when slaves were first brought here. This makes the Cape a particularly interesting place to have come from, but we are looking at the very origins of slavery and how it has impacted the people of the Cape in today’s society. When Dutch…

Nigeria, located in Western Africa, stretches approximately 650 miles from north to south and 700 miles from east to west (Onyenali, 2013). Nigeria is bordered by Niger and Chad to the north, Benin to the west, and Cameroon to the east. The Atlantic Ocean borders the southern limits of Nigeria (Obaje, 2009). According to Akinyemi and Isiugo-Abanihe (2014), with a population of over 160 million, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa. It is estimated that more than 200 different ethnic…

Mali slightly less than twice size of Texas is a landlocked countries that shares boarders with seven countries round it. It was boarded by Algeria in the North, Mauritania and Senegal in West, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the South and Niger and Burkina Faso in the East. Mali is considered as one of the biggest country in West Africa and ranking at 24th largest country in the world. The geographical areas of Mali are estimated around 478,839 square miles. Mali official’s name is the Republic of…