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    left a tiny part out of the land encompassing the Indian Ocean by the North. Finally, Spain had done most of its job, colonizing small sections of Northwest Africa, as well as the coastline North of the Atlantic Ocean, but inadvertently conquered Madagascar as well.…

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    African Music Ethnography

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    For my ethnography project I will be doing the study of African music. This tradition and culture started around the 15th century. Miriam Makeba is a popular artist of African traditional music. He played folk, pop rock and jazz. I picked this topic because their religions, feelings and rituals. This stuck out too me in so many different ways. Another reason why I picked this topic was because of the interesting instruments they play. This music is some of the oldest extant music traditions in…

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    The publication of African after they were free from slavery is something that can influence the reader and such a secondary document containing just four chapter recorded the events. This secondary source was written by A. Adu Boahen, who was there recording detailed facts about the events that were unfolding in Africa and how the entire world power came to that one location. His main argument when recording these events was to show everyone the impact on Africa during the past hundred years of…

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    Firstly, the scramble for Africa was the invasion and imperialistic takeover of the African continent by European countries in the nineteenth century. In the past, in the eighteenth century, trading of slaves was the main source of profit for the Europeans, but “political instability, lack of transportation, and the unhealthy climate”1 all created disadvantages for the Europeans to move further into the African continent. In the nineteenth century, many things changed. The scramble for Africa…

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    I can remember it like it was just an hour ago, the time the plane landed in New York. It was a late afternoon and it was chilly. I remember immediately falling more in love with my mother because she had insisted vehemently that we wrap ourselves up in layers because she predicted that it would be cold. Even though these memories are so vivid, it feels like it was a thousand years ago. So much had happened since that first day in the United States three years ago. I hit the road running almost…

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    What I believe ties all these readings together is the connection between god and power and the Swahili concept of medicine or "Dawa," and the "wound" that the Swahili, Zulu, and Ugandan peoples ' sought to treat with godly medicine. This was especially apparent in the Curing their Ills chapter "The Great Dispensary in the Sky: Missionary Medicine." In all the readings, it is evident that medicine is associated with power, and healing is innately spiritual. It is most evident in the…

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    African Art Research Paper

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    African art and architecture refers to the area around the sub-Saharan Africa. It’s geographically located in Africa continent and south of the Sahara Desert. Since the African Generations exists even before the United States and the nations of Europe became great powers, Africa had witnessed the rise and fall of many kingdoms. The people from this continent has a very long historical culture. Their art work represents the ancient African histories, philosophies, religions, as well as the…

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    Sankofa and The Bible and The Gun are two film that envision the life of the African Descendant. Sankofa shown the criticalness of not having people of African relative float a long way from their African roots. The Bible and the Gun demonstrated the slave exchange and the effect of slavery, prejudice, the explorer and religion in Africa. A wide range of observations and in addition feelings turn out to be more than present alongside a more noteworthy comprehension of the historical background…

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    Beyond African Borders African history depicting its struggles and intimate connection with the world never ceases to mesmerize. In the past, Africans were forced out of their natural habitats but Africa could not be taken out them. They simply refused to give up customs and traditions, even in the face of adversity. In the present time, Africans write a somewhat different story of conflict and social turmoil. Since ancient times, Africans have endured a state of bondage, captured in their…

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    STEREOTYPICAL IMAGES ON AFRICA Most Americans, Western people in general have different stereotypes on Africa. For decades, centuries, Africa has been viewed as a non-civilized place, where endless poverty, diseases, conflict and violence exist. In addition, Americans think that all Africans practice voodoo or known as “Black Magic” considered as morbid and violent religion. First of all, most Americans consider Africa as a huge jungle or rainforest. When they think of Africa, they…

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