Benin

Going to two of the most popular museums in New York City to learn about African art and history did not seem of interest to me until I was forced to by the Summer Class I was taking at Pace. In my mind I kept thinking it was going to be a waste of my time when I could be enjoying my summer weekend in the city. However, I was mistaken and my breath was taken away from our history of humans to the African tradition and how it impacts us. This project showed me the connection of art and history in…

At first, Ishmael who is the main character, was a happy child living a normal life among his family in Sierra Leone. However, during the civil war with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), his family got murdered, and he had no other choice than becoming a child soldier addicted to drugs and capable of terrible acts of violence. Throughout the book, the categorization process appears clearly and lead to different type of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. In fact, at the beginning of…

Nanavi’s, it is believed that women are the ones who are supposed to do housework, rather than going to school. As a result of poor education, it is mostly women who are illiterate in some poor countries that lack a stable education system, such as in Benin. The film “It’s time for school 3” suggests the fact that in many cultures, it is believed that education is very important; however, in some of the cultures, there was the fixed rule that women do the housework, such as in Neeraj and…

near the upper Niger river. The trans-Sahara caravan was a route from the Middle East & Far west, Europe, North Africa, to the Sub-Saharan region of Africa. That Sub-saharan region included but was not limited to: Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Algeria, and Nigeria. The long distance trade was chiefly orchestrated by the Wangara people along the Niger River from Timbuktu to Senegal. It was mostly used by agriculturalist, herdsmen, hunter soldiers, and herdsmen. The trading of…

food………………………………………8 Festivals……………………………………… 10 Languages…………………………………… 12 Conclusion…………………………………… 13 References To visit Togo, first of all you have to learn a little bit of their history… Togo is part of Sub-Saharan Africa, lies between Ghana and Benin; it is like a corridor between the two countries. Its capital is Lome and is close to 2 international airports. Its official name is Republic Togolese and is derived from “To” meaning water and “go" which means edge or shore. But it…

Olaudah Equiano’s book, The Life of Olaudah Equiano is a first-hand account of a truly inspiring and eye-opening story about the harsh experiences of being an African slave in the 18th century. Through notes, letters and first hand experiences, Equiano explains his life story of being a slave within twelve chapters. Each chapter of his book contains different parts of his life, describing the tragedies, relationships, horrific conditions while being a slave, and many other experiences within his…

The captives sold into the Atlantic slave trade experienced being shipped away from their homelands by way of the Middle Passage, they experienced a change in identity and they were torn away from their families, although they did create new bonds once they reached the Americas. The Atlantic Slave trade lasted between 1441 to 1870, and during that time more than 30 million people were forcefully taken out of their homelands by way of the Middle Passage. The captives were forced to take on a new…

European thirst for gold and land led them conquer the new world and fulfilled their own interests from the wealth of the land. After the discovering of the equatorial island of Principe and Sao Tome on 1480, the european demand of cheap indian labor increase and encourage the slave trade in europe. Meanwhile, on 1479 the castalian concessions granted the spanish crown the right to conquer any lands at the west of the earth and gave the east of the earth to the Portugueses. In 1492 the…

2. Colonialism & the Ekwunokwu [Ekumeku] War In the Nigerian geo-political experience, literature is replete with accounts of indigenous resistance to colonial incursion. Often cited are cases of the Caliphate, Ijebu, Ibadan, Benin Kingdom, Kings Jaja of Opobo and Nana of Itsekiri, but little is recorded of the Ekwunokwu [Ekumeku] War involving Anioma against the British colonialists. Following the Berlin Conference of 1885, the area that came to be known as ‘Nigeria’ came under British sphere…

Missionaries and explorers played a crucial role in not only in the discovery of Africa but also with the Atlantic slave trade. Based on the lessons and reading materials, we know that slavery and slave trades we not a new thing to the continent of Africa but Atlantic slave trade was more brutal because not only did it displace close if not more than 15 million Africans but disrupted the African system, economy, and government. With Chinua Achebe things fall apart, the book gives a great insight…