North Africa

The Black Atlantic is an area commonly known for its history of exploitation. The Black Atlantic “represents the history of the movements of people of African descent from Africa to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas and provides a lens through which to view the ways that ideas about nationality and identity were formed” (The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy). The black Atlantic was a culture born out of the Atlantic slave…

Colonial Violence During the Age of Exploration, Europeans explored Asia, Africa and the Americas. The western European states became nationally unified and centralized become able to invest and fund explorations. These Europeans usually were very eager to set up fortified trading posts and strategic ports with the intent of benefitting their own pockets. Most of these encounters began with amazement that ended in horror. The native people where naive to the intent of the European explorers…

Albinism is most common—and most feared—in sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, one in about 1,400 children are born with it. In North America and Europe, the rate is far lower, about one in 20,000. A parent may have normal skin and hair pigmentation and mate with a partner who looks the same but, if each carries the recessive gene for albinism, a child will be born with the condition. Albinos, or people with albinism, the term they prefer, suffer reduced eyesight and increased risk of skin cancer,…

The European Exploration of Louisiana and the Mississippi had some similar and different techniques used than in the exploration of Brazil. The French once they landed in the Louisiana and Mississippi area stated to barter with the natives. The French were looking for gold, silver, and anything that was shinny. The Portuguese sailors got off their ships and started enslaving the natives to work in mines, and the Portuguese sailors took the women and raped them. These two ways of first meetings…

The slave and sugar trade began to be known as the triangular trade because in North America, the English colonies were involved in it. Sugar was sold to Brazilians by the Portuguese. Brazilians then sold the sugar to New Englanders that made it into rum. New Englanders sailed across the atlantic to trade their liquor for enslaved Africans. Brazil, Africa, and the English Colonies in America, together completed the dots of the triangle. Chinese tea and Arabian coffee…

Cameroons colonial name comes from the cameros (prawns) that the 15th Century explores found in the Wouri River. South Cameroon supplied the Atlantic slave and commodity trades. North Cameroon people were Muslim and the economy of the Fulani and Hausa south of the Sahara. Between 1884 and 1916 Germany united the south and the north into a colony. The French ruled the east from the capital, Yaoundé. The British had a small area in the west and was loosely ruled from the Nigeria area, they grew…

Topic: Bilateral Cooperation between Brazil and Cameroon States do not engage or take actions beyond their borders randomly. They are often aware of both internal and external factors. Beasley and other (2013) argue that “it’s precisely because states are experiencing challenges and transformation both internally and externally that the analysis of foreign policy is important.”(pp.1). Comparing two countries in foreign policy taking into account their internal and external factors has proven…

throughout the continent, Africa is regularly at the forefront of global discussion in regards to food security, shortages, malnutrition and food-related trade agreements. Almost the contemporary “poster child” of global food inequality, Africa is approached through a rather unique perspective: Instead of being seen as the systematic product of unfair integration into globalization – having its resources stripped, forced to sign lossmaking trade agreements, etc., -- Africa is approached as a…

The world wouldn't be the way it is today if it wasn't for slavery. African slavery was an outstanding quality to the British empire because slavery shaped the new world of Americas. Initially, when the British defeated the peoples of Eastern North America (Indians), they had destroyed many Native Indians and caused an outbreak of diseases. Those natives who survived through the conquest of guns and diseases declined to work with the defeaters or on the plantations they produced. This led the…

is located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and six miles north of the Niger River. It is significant because it was the commercial, religious, and cultural center of the West African empires of Mali and Songhai in the 14th century. At an early period, Timbuktu played an essential role in the spread of Islam in Africa. Timbuktu’s location made it an important market place for negotiating and trading manuscripts. The north side of Timbuktu also offered gold, while in the south it…