Mali

Renowned for traveling through much of North Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Arabia Ibn Battuta and Shaihu Umar recounted their travels, dictated from memory. Each man experienced life in exceedingly different circumstances including quality of life, social status, and religious customs. Battuta and Umar emerged from distinctive social locations. For Ibn Battuta, Shaihu Umar, two men of God traveling five hundred years apart, religion is governed by their values, experiences, and cultural…

eventually African priests began to spread Islam along the eastern coast of Africa and to western and central Sudan. Eventually, Islam was able to convert merchants to Muslim beliefs who in turn introduced Muslim to beliefs to their trading states—Mali, Ghana, and Songhai. At first, conversion took place on an individual basis, however when the first rulers, the Gao family, were converted, much of the population also began to convert to Islam. In East Africa, Christianity had been adopted by the…

It is horrifying to see what these women and young girls have had to endure when going through a female circumcision. In a few videos, articles and books I have read it explains that most of these girls have to be held down against their will to have this procedure done. What is female genital mutilation; also called female circumcision? It refers to a procedure that intentionally changes or causes injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. There are many reasons FGM is…

Tradition is defined as a set of customs and beliefs that are largely stable through time, the passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication. It is through tradition that the Hopi Indians of Northeast Arizona and the Mande people of West Africa have been able to survive as distinct cultures in this rapidly changing world. The art of oral tradition, or historical storytelling, has been the main resource for the continuous education of…

And also prohibited to you are all married women except those who your right hand possess (slaves or war captives). [This is] the decree of God upon you. Quran 4:24 (partial verse) If it’s the idea of Islam condoning slavery; all it is doing is revealing the situation that existed in the 7th century. It’s very easy for us living in the 21st century to think that slavery is wrong and there’s no place for it in the world. But we forget the sacrifices that many people had gone through in order to…

their beehives of activities that attract foreigners into their shop twenty hours, seven days a week. Nancy Bakers, HR – Executive Director at Hot Café Latte, manages the fifteen branches of Hot Café Latte located in Cameroun, Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Mali and Cape Verde. Hot Café Latte within these regions has about two thousand employees including contract staff, and Tanya Williams is Nancy’s boss. Founded in 1980 by Sir Henry Alfred and opened to the public in the falls of 1981 in his garage…

Compare to those miniscule European states, the Mali Empire was wealthy due to our large production of gold and highly advanced city Timbuktu. Even Europeans who arrived to the city were amazed by the wonders my empire had to offer!” Surprisingly Trac even stood in agreement with Musa, “At last we have…

Guinea is an African country. It is located in West Africa – Sub-Saharan Region. It is located between Guinea Bissau and Senegal in the north; Mali and Cote d’Ivoire in the east; Liberia and Sierra Leone in the south and Atlantic Ocean in the West. Guinea has four natural regions: coastal plain; mountainous region; savanna region; and a forest region. “Total area: 94,927 sp mi (245,861 sq km); Population (2013 est.): 11,176,026 (growth rate: 2.64%); birth rate: 36.3/1000; life expectancy: 59;…

Must Be Crazy The way that Non-Africans tend to view the continent of Africa is often unbecoming and strewed. When the continent is mentioned, the image of Africans being uncivilized, illiterate, and simply backwards may be some of the first characteristics of Africa to come to thought. This portrayal of Africans leads to the belief that in order to prosper, Western salvation is needed in Africa. These thoughts have been programmed into the minds of Non-Africans because of publications such as…

biggest worry in life might have been leaving your parents on the first day of school as you were boarding the bus, or if the boogie monster was actually a real creature that lurked in the night. Now imagine yourself in Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria, or Mali where children are “recruited” to be slave soldiers or fleeing their country looking for peace. Imagine you are a young child that has never attended school, you have not seen your family since you left, and you most likely will never see them…