Niger-Congo languages

From the previous week reading we discovered the Sahel. The Sahel is an area of West Africa which is home to a very unique environment. Within the passage, we learn about the after affects of the drought that has ravage the Sahel. As such, many different parts of the world try to come together and help this important area of Africa. As a result, many western influences were brought in to help reenergize the agriculture of the Sahel. But with their minimal knowledge of the Sahel their ideas soon…

military camp in Agedez, Niger and a French-run uranium mine in Arlit, Niger. These attacks killed 24 people and wounded 20 more. On June 1 2013, the AMB and MUJAO attacked a prison in Niamey, Niger with small arms attacks. This was in retaliation to Niger’s military intervention in northern Mali. This attack killed two people and wounded three…

The Sahel is the hardest part of the Saharan region to live in. Due to the fact that the Sahel faces long term drought and desertification. It is very inadequate, that some countries even have advertisements to persuade their citizens to stop using wood for their homes and to switch to coal. In addition to the drought and desertification, the countries in the Sahel also have marginal land. Marginal land is land that is not suitable for farming. This makes it harder for the population to farm…

main trade was gold. They traded through the Sahara desert. Mali had a whole expansions of markets just for west African goods. They traded gold, ivory, slaves, civet and gum arabic. There was also a trading and learning center located on the upper Niger River. Both Mali and Ghana would also trade crops such as rice, millet, cotton, and others. They would also breed animals for food. Mali and Ghana were able to control the trade routes in West Africa by charging taxes to pass into the gold…

European empires. The Free State of Congo was a peculiar scenario and the Belgian monarch had a certain grip on Congo. Leopold’s reign of the Congo started with many promises of great prosperity for the Congolese. His promises would not materialize. Leopold’s main desire was resources and a source of wealth, his false precept of civilization were contradicted by his agents in the Congo. These contradictions…

Nadi. He loved her and would always flirt with her and attempt to convince her to run away with him. In the end, he got what he wanted and finally kissed and danced with her. Mr. Harari wished to never come back to the Congo. He was a city man and hated every part of being in the Congo. That is why he left Sophie behind at the end of the book. Fortune wanted to have his wife back. He loved her and wanted her forgiveness. He even stood outside Mama Nadi’s bar for days in an attempt to find her.…

In the novel The Poisonwood Bible, written by Barbara Kingsolver and published in 1999, follows the story of the Prices, a missionary family. They depart from Georgia in 1959 and head to the Congo, their expectations coming nowhere close to unforgiving African life. The mother and four daughters tell their stories first person of how they suffered under the fist of their legalistic, abusive father. The main portion of the book takes place in a village called Kilanga, where the patriarch, Nathan,…

Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness follows a young man named Marlow during his travels through the Belgium Congo. Throughout the novel there are countless mentions of the native Congo people being inferior to the white man along with many mentions of the white man’s abuse of the natives. The seemingly constant symbols of light and dark can be interpreted to represent the complicated relationship between the two races, however there is a lot of ambiguity in the specific scenes. Contrary to…

the Poisonwood Bible, western arrogance is emphasized throughout both the Price family and the Western countries through the actions they show toward the Congo. At the start of the novel, all of the Prices hide their belongings in their clothes in order to have the necessities in the new country. These belongings have no real place in the Congo, where Betty Crocker cake mixes, a hand mirror, scissors, a thimble, pencils, and first aid supplies represent former world and stand out. These are…

life. And In the case of Addario’s it’s what I do: A Photographer’s life of love and war, there are subjects of her work that are also very important but they may be difficult for the screenwriter to address, for example her work on the exhibition “Congo/Women”(Addario, 191). It is important, when adapting it into a movie that the screenwriter, Peter Craig understand the power of Addario’s work and not undermine the significance of the lives she has touched with that work. Adapting both…