Scramble for Africa

reframing the theory of human migration out of Africa. The article addresses such areas as archaic hominins and their interbreeding with AMHs (anatomically modern humans), the path and timing of human migration through Eurasia and the Americas, and Megafauna extinction. All of these topics benefit from new insights and theories due to the role of aDNA analysis. The first area addressed by the article, is the new clarity brought to the human migration out of Africa. It has been a long accepted…

Economic Growth The economic strength of the African American community will soon reach $1.5 trillion. To quantify this number and put it into some context, this number is equivalent to the gross domestic product of Russia and South Korea. If we were a nation, we would be the 12th richest country on the planet. Although macro-economists will quickly tell you that GDP and buying power are not the same, since we are not a country exclusive of the U.S., I believe that it provides, at least, some…

Ronald Takaki presents an interesting explanation for the degradation of Africans in America over time. First, the English associated Africans with adjectives, such as sinister, malignant, or deadly. Africans were also described as monsters. These associations create a representation of Africans for English society that becomes hegemonic. So, a foundation of racism existed early on. Africans were then transported to the colonies around the late 1600s. These Africans were not yet slaves as they…

Although colonialism of the past does not exist anymore, the effects of colonialism are still present and affect many countries to this day. This can be seen through the underdevelopment of many third-world countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, which were formally colonies. The colonizers are still involved in these countries’ economy and…

All over the world each day people go hungry because they are not able to provide food for themselves or their family. It is said that every ten seconds someone dies from hunger. Because of the lack of food and hunger many people around the world are becoming weak and sick. This makes it harder for them to work and make money which causes them to fall deeper and deeper into poverty. For some places their are programs called “food for work” which lets adults work jobs that often consist of manual…

In The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad depicts and partially denounces European imperialism in the Congo region of Africa. The Company, an ominously named Belgian ivory trading firm, inflicts a variety of racist cruelties upon native peoples in the area. The mistreatment and slavery are driven by prejudice and xenophobia but are carefully concealed under a guise of aid, with deceptive claims that their presence and practices are helping to civilize the savages. In truth they are the result of…

Lost boys of sudan This article talks about the lost boys of sudan, in this article the sudanese people were ruled by england and egypt. The people from sudan had to fight for their freedom but unfortunately Lost. So had to travel from sudan all the way to ethiopia to find freedom but on the way people died because of, hunger, dehydration and exhaustion and some died because of wild animal attacks. Other people died of drowning trying to cross the river. Many people died because of fighting…

Doctor Helene Gayle estimates that more than 5.3 million individuals are newly infected with AIDS each year. It was imperative that she enveloped leadership characteristics such as diplomacy and good interpersonal skills. In order to properly educate the community about prevention methods, and inform individuals about the epidemic, Dr. Gayle had to address a number of political, social, and economic forces. Although there is a great deal of information available about the causes of the AIDS…

Poverty is the state in which a person lacks a certain amount of money, but there is much more to it than just money. “It is a cruel mix of human deprivation in knowledge, health, dignity and rights, obstacles to participation, and lack of voice” (Fast Facts). Many countries around the world suffer from this and there should be more efficient ways that the people can lower the poverty rates throughout the world. In the 1950’s, the poverty rate for the United States was 22.4 percent, which is…

The spread of disease has slowly decreased over past generations due to education given to the general public about proper safety and health practices. Most disease are spread virally, blood borne, or through salvia. It is that estimated that 13.1% of the 12.7 million individuals who inject various drugs have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); this estimation was made by the World Health Organisation, The United Nation office on drugs and crime, and the World Bank (Beg, Strathdee, & Kazatchkine…