French West Africa

The two African Kingdom I will be comparing are the kingdom of Benin and the kingdom of Mali. I will be demonstrating the rise of each kingdom and the decline of kingdoms and the collapse on both kingdoms. The kingdom of Benin rose to power by trading goods. Benin Declined when a civil war erupted. It finally collapses when its territorial extent shrank rapidly. The kingdom of Mali rose to power because it was rich in gold. It began to decline when its political and military strength was…

Ghana is a small country in West Africa that has a population of approximately 25.5 million people (BBC News, 2017). It is considered one of the nicer countries in Africa because of the abundance of cash crops there. The cash crops and mineral products found in Ghana are used mainly for exports. The national income actually comes from the agricultural and mineral exports (Boateng, Davies, Forge, and Maier, 2017). Without their crops or minerals, they would have no source of income, so it is…

The Empire of Mali existed in Western Africa from around 1235-1600 CE and was one of the largest empires during that time. They had a complex political system enabling them to rule their large territory effectively, however, the Empire of Mali was best known for its vast trade networks throughout Africa. The ruler Mansa Musa is probably the most recognized ruler, and was known for spreading out his gold and wealth to the region on his Pilgrimage to Mecca. The majority of people living in the…

Americans during their lifetime would never travel to africa to see for themselves that what the media is portraying is totally one sided. In the media today, we see African commercials where you can save a dying child for less than a dollar per day. The producer of these commercial normally go to a particular Eastern part of Africa that’s remote and barely associated with the modern world, then shoot their video. Making the continent of Africa appear to be all starving and on the verge of…

from Africa have originated for thousands of years, and were used used to show important cultural information, for example festivals or funerals . The majority of their textiles was made using cotton, a popular material used to make cloth, which creates either a white or brown background colour. The four main types of cloth Africans…

1. Buganda Agreement of 1900 was a collaborative agreement between the British administration and the Buganda chief. The agreement consisted of the Buganda people paying taxes to the administrative heads residing in their lands, while the social status quo of the Buganda people stayed intact. Hierarchy of rule did not change. This all happened juxtapose to Harry Johnson establishing a system of land tenure 2. Githaka was the gathering of land owned Mbari. Mbari was a clan of elites and their…

Preconceptions in the French Military about West African Soldiers during the World War Introduction This report will summarise J. Lunn’s main arguments of his article: ‘Les Races Guerrieres’: Racial Preconceptions in the French Military about West African Soldiers during the World War, and how those racial prejudices effected West-African soldiers recruited for the French Army in the Great War. Furthermore, it will contextualise his arguments into the historiography of French and European…

The sub-Saharan is located in Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert. The sub-regions of sub-Saharan consist of Somalia, Dijibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania. The offical federal republic of somila is a country located in the horn of Africa. Ethopia is to the west, Dijibouti to the north east, the gulf of aden to the north, the indian ocean to the east, and kenya to the southeast. Somila's population consist of 10.8 million people, and most of those people are muslims. The offical republic…

and it transformed the public opinion of African men to actual men and not just items. 2. Fante Confederation was a union formed in 1868 and proposed John Africanus Horton as its leader. It was one of the first actions advocating the self-rule of Africa in attempts to oppose colonization. A constitution was created that allowed the power to rule beside Europeans. The significance of the Fante Confederation was it portrayed the education and resilience of Africans. It showed the adaptability of…

Haiti is a Caribbean country that is found in the island of Hispaniola. It has a population of 10.6 million people. Its main languages are French and Creole. The Haitian Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1804. The main religions found in Haiti are Voodoo and Roman Catholicism. Voodoo is a religion that is a modified form of Catholicism and they worshipped the black God. It has combinations of African beliefs with Catholicism. A few people practice both religions. People referred to…