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I attended A Night in Africa Event on April 1st. It was a great opportunity to experience the elements of the various African cultures. I feel like in America we focus on the American black experience, but often forget that we have immigrants straight from Africa who are very in touch with that unique culture. It was very cool to see so many different students representing their country of origin. It was a great opportunity to learn about cultures I knew very little about, and to see UND…

Jim Henson is the greatest puppeteer of all time, creating movies and television shows such as Sesame Street, The Muppets Show, and Fraggle Rock. Henson is known for the manipulating inanimate objects to speak and move for his own personal cause, this case entertainment. There is, however, an even greater puppeteer then the late Jim Henson. Great Britain (and other European powers) conquered the continent of Africa during the early 1900’s to strip the land of its natural resources and…

Ironically, the influence France has on various African nations especially in terms of military has been deemed “Françafrique” but as of recent no major wars have occurred on Gabonese terrain but there is a significant military presence (The Economist). Independence was not achieved through warfare but instead by reevaluating France’s interest in Gabon and concluding previous colonial agreements. Overall the most notable war was the Battle of Gabon during World War II, which led Free French…

i believe that giraffes are a great part of the ecosystem. A giraffe’s habitat is in africa, usually they roam around in tall grasses and open planes. They can also survive in woodlands, giraffes will move to anywhere they can find food. Their home range is between 8 and 50 square miles, their natural habitat seems to be shrinking due to humans building roads. Their habitat is getting smaller and smaller leading them to going back to the same feeding areas before it has really had a chance…

The Lose of A Continent The question is asked, would it be correct to suggest that Africa, as a continent and as an idea, holds no meaning African Americans, and the answer is yes. African and the modern African American have little to no connection at all. To the average African American individual born and raised in the United States of America, Africa is just an idea misconstrued by varies Eurocentric images and ideas. Ideas to some extent summed up in the concept of the dark continent. The…

Going to two of the most popular museums in New York City to learn about African art and history did not seem of interest to me until I was forced to by the Summer Class I was taking at Pace. In my mind I kept thinking it was going to be a waste of my time when I could be enjoying my summer weekend in the city. However, I was mistaken and my breath was taken away from our history of humans to the African tradition and how it impacts us. This project showed me the connection of art and history in…

The continent of Africa is well known for its history of slavery and mistreatment to the inhabitants there. Africa remained controlled by European nations well into the 20th century. Some of the stronger African societies tried to enforce resistant on the European colonization; however, virtually all of Africa was colonized. One of the main reasons for the impeding of Africa was because of the problems that were occurring in European nations. The only way to make the problems better was to…

History is important because it helps to understand not only the past, but it also helps us to understand and predict the future. Africa is so influential to part of how humankind came to be...Africa is known as the motherland, and is known as the birthplace of humankind. (add who said that) “History is the mother of all social science”. This is why African history is so important, being that it is the birthplace of humankind everything that has happened in Africa is vitale and important. There…

Having taken African Politics last semester I was excited to delve deeper into the history of the continent this semester. I was thankful to have some general knowledge of the continent going into the class because we covered a lot of material that expanded upon what I already knew and provided a plethora of new information for me to digest. Out of all the material that our class covered this semester the three events that resonated with me the most were the independence of Ethiopia,…

The New Versus The Old During the early stages of religious exchange and colonial expansion, African communities split between those who accepted the European’s new religious and education practices versus those who stayed true to their traditions. Ngugi uses the river as symbol of the divide between the village. While the divide between those who followed the Europeans new order and the villagers who followed the traditional way started off small, there soon became a larger and larger gap…