Niger

evidence and the principal reason for the Berlin Conference. The colonial powers entered the conference with one thing in mind; to gain control over the Interior of the Continent. The initial task of the conference was to agree that the Congo River and Niger River mouths and basins would be considered neutral and open to trade. But the strong minded leaders of these nations entered wanting to expand their land and their way of living in Africa. The European powers justified dividing a continent…

Scheme 11: Synthesis of 3h & 3i from 2a-i. Compounds: 3h : 7-Hydroxy-3-(4-methoxybenzyl)chromanone(Dihydrobonducelin) R1=OH, R2=R3=H,R4=OCH3 3i : 7-Hydroxy-3-(2,4-dimethoxybenzyl)chromanone (2’-Methoxydihydrobonducellin) R1=OH,R3=H,R2=R4=OCH3 Antioxidant activity of above synthesized derivatives were studied, on that basis 3-benzylchromones with phenolic hydroxyl group (2h & 2i) showed highest activity than com-pound with methoxyl group (2e & 2g) because double bond between C2-C3 done major…

Intro: Consider a math final in a stressful period in high school students’ careers. Due to some freak coincidence, every student in a class has forgotten their pencil--and, every student knows that the more pencils they have, the more they work they can write down for partial credit. A pile of used mechanical pencils sits unregulated in a corner. One student, Dylan, realizes that he can take one of those pencils and get a better grade than others in the class. In fact, he can take as many as he…

In the Niger Delta, specifically, religion was corrupted by the slave trade and those who profited from it. The oracle of Arochukwu became connected with the slave traders, in exchange for a portion of the wealth resulting from the sales the traders made. If a…

The ability and power of Africa was unknown. No country knew of this “dark” continent, the people who occupied it, and the resources that could be obtained. Thus, the commencement of exploration into Africa. The novels Tools of Empire by Daniel R. Headrick and King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, exhibit the effects of explorations in Africa. These two novels portray the ground work in which Africa was established and maintained. Some common themes among these novels are African colonization…

`“This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated” (Paul Watzlawick). This happens to be the way that Chinua Achebe turns his book Things Fall Apart into a piece of propaganda. Things Fall Apart is a story that follows the life of Okonkwo. It starts with Okonkwo being a person of great renown and power in his clan, Umuofia, in pre-colonial Nigeria,…

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE of Eugenia jambolana Lam., DEFINITION Java plum berry begin to exist in India where it is originally called as Jamun . Eugenia jambolana Lam., is the scientific name of this plant. Jambolan , Jambas , Jambul , Jamali , Jambul, Black Plum, Java Plum, Indian Blackberry, Jamblang, etc. are just some of the other common names of Java plum berry from different parts of the world . It belongs to the Myrtaceae family or Syzygium cumini (also called as Syzygium jambolanum…

to affect how people will see Okonkwo, who is really a misunderstood man that always lived in fear of failure. To add on to the Commissioner’s arrogant character, he plans on naming this book, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. This man is disparaging the people of Umuofia by calling them primitive based on how they…

mass starvation a product of a natural disaster or is it due to some degree of man-made interference? Global hunger can be analyzed by better understanding some of the place in the world that have been impacted heavily, which include Somalia, Malawi, Niger, Bangladesh, and South Sudan. Part B & C Amartya Sen’s work, Poverty and Famines (1981), is significant in the literature surrounding famines and its causes. The general premise of his essay is that famines do not entirely result from natural…

Race has been and always will be a subject that will have different opinions and ideas about it. Mark Twain uses his novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” to express his thoughts on race in a variety of ways. There are some plausible reasons to believe that Twain thinks blood essentially defines a character. However, it seems as if he states these in a joking matter in many cases. Also, the idea of nature versus nurture is a key factor in identifying the views Mark Twain has on race and it seems to outweigh…