German East Africa

South-West Africa ruled by the Germans. Many different groups of people lived there such as the Namaqua and the Herero. In 1888, the German commander Curt von Francois stated that, “Only uncompromising brutality will lead to victory.” The Germans took over the Herero land and planned to build a railway which would cross through this territory. A Herero leader named Samuel wanted to resort to war. So he wrote to the other groups and said, “Our weak nations across Africa must stand against the…

Imagine a city split apart by two superpowers fighting for control of the world. This city becomes a symbol of the split between two very different worlds. That is what the city of Berlin, Germany was during the Cold War, a competition between the Capitalist United States of America and the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union. Berlin became a symbol of what the Cold War was doing to the world. Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, entire families were severed…

the people creating it. South Africa is another country with a shameful history of…

slowly down the West African coast, around the tip of South Africa, and up the East African coast and landed in Calicut, South India. They found an ancient and rich network of commerce that stretched from East Africa to China. Asia offered many tropical spices that were desired in Europe, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, and pepper. These spices were used mostly as condiments and preservatives. Other products offered by the East were , silk, cotton, rhubarb, emeralds, rubies, and…

Scramble for Africa activity: 1.) How closely does your map reflect what actually happened? For the most part, the map composed during our class period did not closely reflect what actually occurred in Africa. The French empire was on the money, conquering predominantly Northwest Africa in both maps. However, during our class period the British had conquered an insignificant amount of land in comparison to what they were supposed to have controlled, with almost no presence in Africa. In…

INTRODUCTION. Pre colonial Africa was has varied has the continent itself. Different circumstances produced different societies with different tradition, customs, and politics these societies rose, fell and adapted as the centuries passed. Despite this variety, it is possible to divide political organisation amongst these communities into two broad categories states and stateless societies. Low population densities and the production of relatively small economic…

discussion of medicine from the physical realm to the metaphysical realm while leaving the complex implications of these relations to our own judgments. This unique relationship found in many African cultures is what Europeans exploited entering South Africa and Tanganyika according…

Within the Regional and Comparative Studies major, I plan to study gendered violence in Sub-Saharan Africa – specifically how religious traditions create a culture in which violence against women thrives. In today’s deeply polarized world, it is more important than ever to understand the extremely divisive force that is religion, and how different religious beliefs serve to inform a society’s treatment of women. Several years ago, I read Jimmy Carter’s excellent book A Call to Action: Women,…

From developing the models of causality variables to affect job satisfaction, Seashore and Taber (1975) suggests that all of the internal organization environment (e.g. organizational climate, leadership types and planning) can affect the job satisfaction of employee. Robbins (2003) conducted an experiment with the subject of FedEx. From the research, it indicates that managers adopting the transformational leadership management style cannot only bring with better work performance rated…

The 2006 film Blood Diamond, directed by Edward Zwick, promotes this depiction and works to endorse western methodologies, beliefs and ideologies counter to the controversial issue of child soldiers in Africa. The film writers and directors position viewers to agree with dominant interpretations pertaining to child soldiers and their severe loss of innocence. (Play video of boy killing guy without knowing while blind folded) As seen in this extract, the loss of the child’s innocence is…