Neocolonialism

The story about the book king Leopold’s ghost is a book describing the modern history of the Congo which is a story of brutality, greed and death all caused by King Leopold. The story of King Leopold was widely discussed around the world due to the events that happened to the people of Belgium during his reign. King Leopold’s Ghost describes a lot of events, beginning with the effort made by King Leopold make a colonial claim for the Congo and the inhabitants. One of the main topics…

Growing up in a very large country, with a very small population, and only two neighbours, as a child, I was always wondering and deeply interested in knowing how the children from the other countries are growing up. I always wanted to know how do they spend their free time, how their puberty goes, which experiences do they have, how do they communicate with their parents, what do they eat, drink, think, read, dream, feel, how do they see the world, are their experiences similar to my own or not…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…

to work outside of the home, she has no right to own any of it: it is solely for the socioeconomic advancement of her father 's household and later her husband 's. As mentioned earlier, cultural literacy is very crucial to the understanding of the fight of the African woman because without understanding the peculiarity of the culture and society, a feminist or activist will only be speaking for the woman. However, the African woman does not seem to know the way out of the conundrum of finding…

John L. Esposito is a professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic studies at Georgetown University. A former graduate of Temple University with a PhD in Islamic studies. He previously has served as a past president of Middle East Studies Association of North America, and also American Council for the of Islamic Societies. He is an author of numerous other books that involve Islam. Unholy War was published in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Unholy War begins by going…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of the word activism is defined as, “the use of vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change” (Citation). When people do not agree with a topic or trying to raise awareness for a cause, they are taking part in activism. The topic of activism is evident in just about everything we do in our daily lives. One example of where activism is evident is in art work. Activism is evident in a majority of artwork, for example…

My research was mainly focused on police brutality and racism against African Americans. The key findings in my annotated bibliography were, (1) African Americans who have not violated any traffic laws are stopped and frisked by the police, (2) African Americans are ticketed by police more than whites, (3) African Americans are often handcuffed and humiliated by the police compared to others (4) In general African Americans have the fear of police at all times while driving, (5) African…

Whilst national independence in Third World nation states was one of the main objectives of the Third World project, leaders quickly came to realize that this would not be possible without ensuring Afro-Asian economic independence first. These nations pledged their support for each individual country’s economic development – they vowed to rely on themselves rather than on Western foreign aid. Foreign capital was seen as a tool for ‘exploitation rather than for the development of the less…

Morocco seems to draw the portrait of its relations with the European Union and Sub-Saharan African countries including the African Union over the Western Sahara issue. Accordingly, the Moroccanism component of the postcolonial Moroccan national identity is preferred to Europeanism and Africanism when it comes to the Western Sahara issue. But a more important point is that Moroccanism was a strong component not only for Western Sahara but even after the postcolonial period. In an article,…

The White Veil of Colonialism Europeans who practiced colonialism were motivated by the 3 C’s Culture, Capitalism, and Christianity, which determined the philosophy and the methods they used to conquer foreign lands and people. With each conquest, European colonist inflicted their perceived superior value systems with on their purpose of for colonization. Their cultural value system led to the idea that one’s race determined one’s rank in society. This is significant, because now we have this…