Juba

Irish tap dance in terms of techniques, purpose and music under cultural background. Tap dance has roots in many cultural dances such as the English clog dance, Spanish Flamenco and African Juba dance which makes it an interesting genre to study and practice. Within these different practices, the African Juba dance definitely has one of the greatest influences on modern tap dance. It has resulted…

IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) which is an eight-country trade bloc in Africa. A peace agreement was signed in Ethiopia by both parties because the United Nations threatened to sanction both sides in August 2015. Machar returned to Juba, the capital city of South Sudan in 2016, and was appointed as vice president, only to have a second breakout of fighting happen within the city, causing Machar to flee and go into exile to Sudan. Currently, the SPLM-in opposition control small…

Imagine if you were forced away from your home at an early age, having to take refuge in a distant country while many of your family members and friends are suffering from disease and hunger. The Second Sudanese Civil War turned this pretend scenario into a real life problem that many young children of Sudan and surrounding countries were forced to face. These young children were known as The Lost Boys of Sudan. Although there are many stories about this war, “The Lost Boys of the Sudan”…

to remove the tattoo from his arm, Maximus is questioned by the Nubian man, Juba: “Is that the sign of your gods? Will that not anger them?”(Gladiator) The “gods” that Juba inquires about, as seen through Maximus’ eyes, can refer to Rome itself or more specifically the new emperor, Commodus, who Maximus sees as the root cause of his anguish. Maximus’ scornful reaction, a mere nod of the head with tears in his eyes, to Juba in the movie reveals his desires to reject the very Empire, or the…

South Sudan is the world’s newest country as they gained hard-fought independence in 2011. The team that worked together to gain this sovereignty soon became divided upon their success as president Salva Kiir accused his vice, Riek Machar, of planning to overthrow him. Machar then reacted by publicly calling for the overthrow of Kiir as he jailed several respected South Sudanese politicians for their supposed plan. In other words, a civil war emerged in December of 2015 and a clear ethnic divide…

presentation and activation of dance engagement tools that speak to social justices issues and the personal experience of being Black in American society. The etymology of my recent work, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (BG:LP, 2015), can be traced from pattin’ Juba, buck and wing, social dances and other percussive corollaries of the African drum found on this side of the Atlantic, all the way to jumping double dutch and The Dougie. In BG:LP, I use the rhythmic play of this African- American dance…

Sudan has been at war from almost the moment it gained its independence in 1956. Its first civil war lasted from 1962 to 1972. In 1983 civil war breaks out once again and this lasted until 2005. In 2006 the peace is broken and numerous clashes between rival factions kill hundreds, if not thousands of people, between 2006 to 2012. In 2011, the government of South Sudan took a vote to become an independent country. Since the separation of the two countries, South Sudan began experiencing conflict…

One theme that all three authors touched on was the blending of two cultures and African religion with Christianity. In Wilsons play, he first introduces this blend when he has several residents of the boarding house perform a “Juba” dance. This dance is a spiritual representation of differing religions. Meant to preserve native African traditions while allowing one to call forth the Holy Spirit found in Christianity. In Dumas’ short story, Ark of Bones, he also sheds light on…

Quote Collector Copy evidence from articles that support each topic, you will use these quotes later to create evidence sentences for your essay. Violence: Violence spread across the young nation like wildfire, displacing 413,000 civilians in just the first month of conflict. Tens of thousands of civilians rushed to seek refuge in U.N. bases that were subsequently turned into makeshift displacement camps. The scale of sexual violence is particularly shocking: in five months last year, from…

The Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, is a violent rebel group led by Joseph Kony. The fight between the Ugandan government and the LRA is one of the longest running conflicts in Africa resulting back to 1986. To many experts, the LRA is one of the most brutal forces in the world. The LRA is notorious for committing human rights violations including murder, mutilation, rape, widespread abductions of children and adults, sexual slavery, and looting of villages. Throughout the years of existence,…