Central Africa

There is a African girl that watches her village being killed and captured.Her name is Amari. One day she was playing around with her brother but that night she watched her whole family be killed. She was so shocked she couldn’t move she just sat there. She ended up getting captured. She was put on a boat and sold into slavery. She found another slave who helped her way to being able to escape. Through this book Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper it is very emotional and historically driven. Its shows…

To what extent was colonialism to blame for issues in congo today. Congo was colonized by Leopold & the Belgian Government in 1885. Leopold colonized Congo because he wanted their natural resources so then they can stay protected and not be surpassed by other countries. His motives to do this was mostly for self-benefits so then he could be whether and more powerful. He was able to do this by tricking and deceiving people by promising protection through a language barrier they made them…

Medieval African Art Rock paintings from medieval Africa are one of the oldest types of art in the world. Art in medieval Africa came in many forms such as paintings, masks, statues and textiles. Africans made many traditions with their art and influenced many cultures, including their own. These different types of art were used in many religious practices and many are still used today. Cave paintings are Africa’s earliest form of art, thought to be over 27,000 years old. They show many aspects…

In Chapter 6 of the book “The Modern Middle East”, James Gelvin starts with defining Imperialism, according to Ronald Robinson, imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, diplomacy or ideological suasion. Algeria, Egypt and Mount Lebanon experienced different kinds of imperialism. Firstly, Algeria experienced imperialism through colonialism, the process began during the 19th century when the rural population of Southern Europe grew faster than its…

Africa is the supposed birthplace of the human race. It is here that the Australopithecines, a group of hominins including Australopithecus and Paranthropus, lived from 4.2 to 1.2 million years ago. In the same area but from 1.9 to 0.027 million years ago, Homo ergaster also roamed around. Even though they shared the same geographic location, they each represent very different phases of the evolution to what we are today. It would therefore be interesting to see how they differed, based on the…

Question 3: African Art The African art has several similarities with European art. For instance, due to the influence of Islam and Christianity, most of their art have religious or political purposes. However, wood is the material of their choice. They also used other natural materials, which unfortunately did not survive the pass of time. Moreover, only in special circumstances pottery was created to embellish the houses of their rulers and noble men. For them, pottery was simplistic,…

Sean Stilwell’s book, "Slaving and Slavery in Africa details a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century. The primary purpose of the book is to present Africa, Africans, and slavery in a more realistic and accurate way. Stilwell asserts that slavery in Africa was diverse: slaves occupied a wide range of roles and positions in African states and societies. The statuses and treatment of slaves varied dramatically. Stilwell attempts to…

As the European world is in descending into general peril during the 15th and 16th centuries, a multitude of precarious variables are bearing havoc onto the region, providing inordinate reasons and motivations for the Europeans to venture westward into a new world. Among certain motivations for European exploration include: a quest for a homogenously Christian-European region, a sheer onslaught of pandemonium brought by the bubonic pandemic of the 1500’s, and the search for new spice trade…

way to increase capitalism, the free market, and world trade as well. European nations gained control over much of Africa as a way to gain control of the land and of the market. Europeans were quicker and had more powerful tools in order to take over Africa and Asia and by 1914 they had taken over all but Ethiopia and Liberia. There were economic reasons Europeans took control of Africa. They wanted the raw materials, like coal and metals. The wanted there land for plantations and trade…

The history of Africa has been engulfed with exploitation, tragedy, and the slaughter of millions of people across its rich soil. The Congo, as did many other countries, struggled towards independence to break from the stronghold of the Europeans during colonization. With great courage, Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expressed his discontent for the trickery taking place against his people. Although his position in leadership was brief, his…