North Africa

The Islamic Slave Trade: Examining Africa’s Ties Since the dawn of the seventh century, the African continent has been a welcoming home for Islam, Modern Age’s fastest growing religion, and its followers.1 Over the subsequent eons, Islam and Africa have become entwined in an intersectional and harmonious relationship, balancing the nuances of faith, scholarship, politics, and economics––all resultative of the institutionalized slavery that metastasized across the continent with the spread of the…

As discussed in class, the Modern world is a world that has been created upon the development of the new world established by Christopher Columbus in 1492. As in history, Christopher Columbus has been known as a guide, colonizer, and a voyager whose voyages through Atlantic sea incited all European commonality with those American mainlands in the Western portion of the globe. Columbus' revelations changed our exploratory understanding and later introduced of the "new world".Throughout as much…

just of goods but for the trading of peoples, cultures, diseases, and religions. The coasts of Eastern Africa, North and South America, and Europe made up the Atlantic World, and many people of that time period got a chance to be apart of the interactions between those empires. Yet, none of them with so interesting of a story as African-born healer Domingos Alvares. He moved between West Africa, Brazil, and Portugal; taking along with him his open mind, charisma, and deep spirituality. Although…

the New World. Slave labor spread from Portuguese ruled Brazil to the Caribbean Islands. Portuguese captains in the early 1400s went to the West African coast to find Christian allies against the Muslims of North Africa and spread Christianity, but were more interested in the trades with Africa as were the Spanish, French, and Dutch. West African kings and Arab merchants imported white slaves from…

RETURN OF THE WHITE MAN "A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace." -- Kwame Nkrumah The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines imperialism as a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force or other means. Hans-Ulrich Wehler states that “imperialism was intended to flatten the extreme fluctuations of the business…

In her text Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender & Race in South Africa, Amanda Lock Swarr credits Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner for the concept of liminality, which describes “passage from one cultural state to another” (Swarr 3). However, liminality does not necessarily have to express a temporary state; it can be applied to a state which is permanently between social categories (Enke, Lecture 3/8). Swarr applies this concept to gender to create an alternative term to more widely used…

The Homo erectus was believed to have lived about 1.89 million years ago in North, South, and East Africa; western and east Asia. They possessed a human like body with the ability to stand upright with its elongated legs, shorter arms compared to the torso and a slightly larger braincase relative to the size of the face. With these discoveries in the fossilized anatomy it seems that these features are adaptations for a life lived on the ground. They had the ability to walk and possibly run long…

and Anglo-American ships alone brought 3 million slaves to the Americas between 1700 and 1808. They crossed the Atlantic on over packed slave ships, where a large percentage of them died before reaching their final destination, the West Indies, or North America”. This just shows how many African American were sold are traded between African merchants and Europeans between 1700 and 1808. The sad fact of this that a large number of Africans died before reaching their destination to the colonies.…

The Republic of Somaliland (formerly known as north-west Somalia) is situated in the horn of Africa. Its boundaries are defined by the Gulf of Aden to the north, Somalia to the east, federal state of Ethiopia to the south and west, and republic of Djibouti in the northwest. The total area of Somaliland is 137,600 km2 with a coastline of 850kms with the most strategic sea ports in the world (i.e. Berbera Port, Zeila, and Los-qorey etc.). The population is estimated at four million consists of…

other means of power. For example, the European imperialism in Africa was accomplished through military conquest and colonization. Colonialism is defined as conquering and settling occupied or unoccupied territory for political and economic benefit. For example, England, Spain and France colonized North America. Europeans justified their actions of colonizing Africa by claiming that it was their duty to bring civilization to Africa and improve the lives of Africans. Other Europeans were…