North Africa

Africans, “a single story of catastrophe.” As she spent more time in the U.S., she began to understand her roommate’s response to her. If the only things she knew about Africa came from popular images, she too would believe that it was simply a place of natural beauty but with lots of human suffering. This single story of Africa can be seen in Western literature, where writers like John Locke and Rudyard Kipling reinforced the image of Africans as uncivilized beasts. Adichie herself was…

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells the story of the struggle between a split African tribe, the nobleman and the outcast. As the title implies the struggle only goes downhill. In one chapter the church members struggle to accept the outcast, the osu. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s idea of conversations between cultures in the Cosmopolitanism to the Umuofia people joining the culture of the Church in Things Fall apart, the converts would be more accepting. However, the congregation…

Imagine you are boy live in Africa and come from a poor family. Imagine that your father cannot provide for your family and you owe a lot of money to friends and relatives, he has to pay back; moreover, he is not respected at all he has no titles. How would you respond, make a name for yourself, and prove that you are nothing like your father? Okonkwo perfectly fits this description. Written by Chinua Achebe in 1958, Things Fall Apart takes place in Nigeria and centers the story about Okonkwo…

novella, “Heart of Darkness”, there are quite a few types of darkness depicted. There is the literal darkness, due to nature, the darkness of ones skin, and most importantly the darkness of ones soul.. Conrad tells the tale of not only colonialism in Africa during 1890s, but how a journey deep into the jungle can ultimately bring out the potential “darkness” within anyones soul. The story itself centers around a man by the name of Marlow, who undertakes a journey up the Congo River to meet and…

Africa; “one of the darkest places of the earth” (Conrad pg.6) where there is “cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death” (Conrad pg.7) around every corner and from where no one has returned. Humans need other humans to keep them accountable. Without accountability a person loses all restraints, is driven by his natural desires, and civilization is ultimately lost. Although the job of the Europeans who go to Africa to collect ivory is to humanize the natives, the natives prove to be more…

Each time you see images on TV and on the internet with hungry people, with no food, running water, often in tattered clothing and no shoes, living in mud houses in rundown communities (slums) you begin to have a sense of what poverty looks like. Poverty and mortality rates continues to increase throughout the world even though have these powerful images and great resources. TYPES OF POVERTY Poor- is who is simply due to lack of resources boar means, remains all the time struggling to meet their…

transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean. There were a lot of thing that could go wrong on the trip from Africa to the new world. There many different types of disease that the captain and crew were exposed to, also there was a chance that they could run into bad weather crossing the ocean, and there was a chance that there cargo could die. Most of the slaves came from the coast of Africa. Most of the Captains of the slave ships were Englishmen looking to become rich and well known. The…

The farmers in Africa are simply not producing enough food to meet the demand, which also makes food more expensive and more hard to reach. Close to four million Zambians, seven million Zimbabweans, and fourteen million Ethiopians are at risk of starvation(Masci). If these…

The devastation that was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade stripped African’s of their culture, families, civilization, and history. Fortunately, hard working individuals like director Andrea Kalin are restoring some of this rich heritage; making African history something that is not just brushed aside, but rather appreciated and understood. Through her cinematic talents, Kalin is able to not only tell an interesting story, but succeeds in representing these people for who they were: intellectual…

mood when it comes to Wheatley’s poem. She declares, “Taught my benighted soul to understand/That there 's a God, that there 's a Saviour too” (Wheatley 602). This statement references her capture and journey from Africa to America. She means that the pagan life she lived before in Africa made her ignorant and oblivious of the existence of something greater than what she knew, Christianity. This explains why she acknowledges God by calling him her savior. Wheatley was not aware of God in…