German East Africa

In the 15th century, West Africa was full of problems. Though there were positive sides, there was also negative sides. Doing more research led to learning that the negative sides overthrew the positive sides. Some trades that were involved at this time of period are the Trans-Saharan trade and Transatlantic trade. The difference between these two trades is the Trans-Saharan was for traveling across the Sahara to obtain gold, but the Trans-Atlantic trade was for capturing slaves. These slaves…

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The duration of the slave trade was approximately four centuries. Those victimized were the millions of black African men, women and children brutally assaulted, torn from their homes, deported to several regions and continents and sold as slaves. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO the slave trade was “the greatest tragedies in the history of humanity in terms of scale and duration.” According to Johnson’s argument, the emancipation of…

hey had such a success with the travel of merchandise because they had the river stream in their favor and they had not much to trade all they had was iron, coal, wool, tin, and cotton. Even with all that they couldn’t do it because of the population growth resulted in more people from the countryside being freed up to work for wages in the new cities and eventually increased demand for products such as clothing. Coal and Iron deposits were plentiful in Great Britain and proved essential to the…

lost their power and were controlled by European powers and Christianity was now the new religion to be followed. (Oxtoby & Segal, pg. 65) Within certain parts of Africa, the European powers that took over Africa were not trying to separate societies like what had been done in the Americas and Australia. Therefore, in most parts of Africa there wasn’t this need to remove these indigenous populations from the land to make way for the Europeans. (Oxtoby & Segal, pg.…

The Europeans came to africa for slave trade. Some effects for them coming to africa for slave trade is that when they got there the Africans did not like them. Also they were mad at the Europeans for coming and taking their people.Then they saw how they were taking their people and using them for hard work that they should be doing. When they saw thousands of their people die and a lot of their cities were destroyed and wrecked by the europeans.Another reason that the European slave trade…

naming, river blindness has become a serious problem to many individuals especially in parts of Africa, Yemen, and South America. In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that onchocerciasis had not caused a single death. However, the illness had become a global burden by causing disability adjusted life years to 987,000 people around the world (Murray, 2013). The disease originated from Africa and found its way to America in the era of slave trade among other diseases such as…

“Congo is now total horror story, for years.” This is what Noam Chomsky, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, said after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the DRC, on January the 17th 1961. Unfortunately, he saw right. Since a few decades now, it has been widely observed that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African developing country and former Belgian colony, has been the stage of great instability; and notably massive human…

RETURN OF THE WHITE MAN "A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace." -- Kwame Nkrumah The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines imperialism as a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force or other means. Hans-Ulrich Wehler states that “imperialism was intended to flatten the extreme fluctuations of the business…

In the article, Facilitating African Identity Development Critical Literacy Books for African College Students, it discusses the way Africans identify with who they are. The article goes into details about how Africans define culturally, based on their race, environment, personality awareness, and there interest level in learning of there cultural history. Through the years people development their sense of identity from the lifestyle the lived. This can be attributed to the way the…