Senegal

  The mighty Congo Empire, at Cote d’lvoire, Aka, the Ivory Coast of West Africa had the Burkina Faso warriors originally from the Bantu migration 600AD. They were skilled in horse riding and the use of the bow. Their earliest history starts with the Dagomba tribe neighboring the Boussansi, the Ninisi, the Gourounsi and the Kabisi their union brought about a great warrior kingdom called the Mossi. The greatest warriors of this Empire were the Wagadogo and the Yatenga. They used weapons such…

Trinity Goldsmith The Ignorance Towards Africa The central idea of Africa is often a misconception. Some perceptions of Africa are true, but only in certain countries are these notions accurate; Africa is typically thought of as one united front, instead of having a diverse group of countries with a variety of citizens and beliefs. Outsiders only learn about Africa through travelers, who often tell stories about particular areas, not the whole continent, and through school, which does not…

Viruses and Diseases have plagued humanity for all of their existence. They caused the fall of empires and fall of almost half an entire population. The Black Death alone “wiped out about 30 million people between 1347 and 1351. That amounted to 30% to 50% of the population on the continent killed in a period of just five years.” In modern times the Ebola Virus and Dengue Fever have cause scare and panic in 1st world countries and killed thousands in many 3rd world countries. The Bubonic…

Women’s Roles in Senegal In So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, Bâ illustrates the roles of Senegalese women compared to men in a Western African and Islamic society. She uses the lives of two main characters, Ramatoulaye and Aissatou, to display the roles women played in the changing social climates of Western Africa. During this time period, liberation for women gained a large amount of momentum and Bâ focuses on Ramatoulaye’s and Aissatou’s reactions to their husbands taking a second wife.…

Slavery has ultimately transformed the world, allowing Europeans, Portuguese, and the Spanish to all develop agricultural and in all aspect of survival. Slavery transformed the world into a trading dynasty, but ultimately it wasn’t slavery that allowed the ability to trade across seas. The en route to India would allowed colonies to import and export live stocks and produce across seas. Once the en route was achieved, it began as a race for all colonies of the west to reach India. As the history…

In order to reflect on what i have learned in Organizational Behavior, i think it is important that we establish two definitions of learning. The first pertains to an academic setting in which i believe learning is merely the ability to learn exactly how to learn. We are creating mental schemas to eventually create knowledge. For example, in grade school they teach you how to read and write, creating a mental schema. Eventually, that same mental schema is turned into an epistemological schema…

Slavery laid at the core of Ghana’s pre-colonial states, whose economy was almost fully dependent on slave labor. Indigenous slavery occurred before the transatlantic slave trade, and coexisted with it from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. During pre-colonial Ghana, slaves were a commodity and their descendants maintained a slave status as well. Since slaves became a part of their masters’ property either through adoption or marriage, they weren’t exactly classified as complete outsiders,…

With respect to the above matter, we take note of the feedback from Pfizer on the negative experience with the pilot procedure on collaborative registration of products approved by stringent regulatory authorities (SRA). The objective of the pilot procedure, which is a voluntary process for all parties, was to assess the feasibility of collaboration in exchange of information (assessment and inspection reports) between a stringent regulatory authority “SRA” and respective national medicines…

African Americans also known as Afro-Americans of Black Americans are an indigenous group of Americans with partial or total heritage from a black tribal groups of Africa. This term may also include those persons who descend from enslaved Africans (Michelle 2012). The first African arrived in 1526 via Santo Domingo which is the present-day South Carolina. These slaves revolved and sought refuge among the local Native Americans. The first recorded Africans in the British North America was in 1619…

together as a result of enslavement during the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Hazzard-Donald asserted that the primary African components from which Hoodoo would be developed was drawn from a range of different African ethnic cultures that stretched from Senegal to the Congo. As a result, enslaved Africans…