Slavery in modern Africa

Centuries ago, when Africa was still considered the land of the unknown, it interested Europe to imperialize and “civilise” it. They thought Africans as savages that needed to be rescued. When Europeans colonized America, they thought Native Americans as savages too. The poem…

the agriculture and the unemployment. Why do these factors influence the poverty in Ethiopia and what else effects it? Ethiopia`s population is 86.5 million and 44% of the population live under poverty. The country is located in the east-central Africa. It is covered mainly by mountains and lowlands. In the rural areas more people experience poverty than in the urban…

The book of Genesis is divided in to two, chapters one through eleven and chapters twelve through fifty. The first eleven chapters of Genesis tells an authoritative story about how God created the world. Many modern historians only loosely accept what the scriptures say about history, this means that while scriptures have been semi accepted as a reliable source of information, there is still disconnection between todays popular history and history according to the scriptures. The Genre of…

and Christianity. Postcolonial independence must be in the hands of literate and civilized men who understood constitutional law and practice and who could easily relate with and understand the politics of world economy. The educated elites in West Africa saw African history as irrelevant and useless. They saw its history as deplorable in the past, could do nothing for the present and the future would forget it. The acknowledged African chiefs found this deeply offensive and argued that the…

By looking back in history at the major influencers and motivators of the Harlem Renaissance, writers of today have keyed into the power of Douglas’s work and how that has affected generations to come. One modern essayist wrote, “Almost three quarters of a century after the Harlem Renaissance, the generative themes found in the work of Aaron Douglas are again being taken up by black artists, activists, and others both in the United States and in the diaspora;…

America. Whole island populations in the Indies were wiped out. This was a major blow to earlier civilizations in the Americans as well as an opportunity for Europeans to forge a partially new population of their own citizens and slaves imported from Africa. The devastation occurred over a period of one hundred fifty years, although in some areas it was faster. The same dreadful patters played out, devastating vibrant cultures, when Europeans made contact with Polynesians and Pacific Coast…

“There is perhaps no strong impetus within the study of Black American literature and culture than the will to return, the desire to name the original, the source, the root, that seminal moment at which the many-tongued diversity of ancient West Africa gave way to the monolingualism of black North America” (135). Often this journey happens in black literature. Since the Emancipation Proclamation, former slaves, and occasionally non-slave abolitionists, have written or orated their accounts of…

dramatically. These slaves were mainly war captives, kidnapped and sold in Rome’s large slave trade. Slaves had no rights and the immoral Romans looked at slavery as part of everyday life. During the early Roman republic, debtors would be forced to work for landowners in order to work off their debt. When this practice was outlawed, slave labor was needed. Slavery was thus of immense economic importance. Slaves were needed as agricultural workers as peasant farmers enlisted into the army and…

The early advent of the sixteenth century presents Loíza as a Taino Arawak Indian settlement, situated on the eastern area of the banks of the Cayrabon River (presently called Rio Grande de Loíza) at the time of the Spanish conquest of Puerto Rico in 1508, led by the leadership of Juan Ponce de Leon. First named Jaymanio by the Indians, the settlement was under the rule of the indigenous chieftess Yuiza when the Spaniards arrived. Believed to have married Pedro Mexia, a Spanish-born “mulatto”…

profane. All religions have a form of ritual or rite that allows access to the sacred and this is why the study of science’s impact on religious practices is evidence that religion could not exist without science. Science and the development of the modern world shaped religions whether it was directly or…