Slavery in modern Africa

whitewashing of American slavery. I find her style immensely interesting on both a surface-level reading and in the dark themes simmering just underneath it. Her use of silhouettes as a…

Rastafarianism is a rather new religion that began on November 2, 1930. This was the day that Ras Tafari Makonnen became Emperor of Ethiopia. Many Rastafarians believed that he was divine and was the manifestation of Jesus. When Ras Tafari was crowned emperor, he became known as Haile Selassie I, which means “Might of Trinity”. Rastafarians referred to him as Jah, which means God. In 1975, Selassie was captured and was said to be killed, but Rastafarians believe that his death was faked and he…

which left me pondering on several questions, who are we, how did we get in this predicament, how did we get on the underside, and how do we see each other in an expanded lens? If Gordon’s goal was to have the readers look into Africana philosophy as modern day philosophy, he accomplished it by giving me insight in the study of Africana philosophy…

This book “Aren’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South” by Deborah Gray White was a great book. Deborah Gray White talks about the struggles the African black slaves had to suffer. The great thing about this book is not only the excellency of Deborah Gray White report and vivid imagery as she for tell the struggle that these black women slaves had to face, but I firmly believe that she can do these women justice because she herself is a black women who will not be biases toward the…

paying annual federal taxes. Moreover, this notion has remained constant even throughout our revolutionizing history and has made the opportunity of equal rights for everyone regardless of gender or race seem almost unattainable. In Nobodies: Does Slavery Still Exist? by John Bowe and Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, both authors expose the brutal sufferings of select individuals’ everyday lives and how these revelations have inspired ordinary citizens to stand up against their government…

ideas about Africans and black people. These ideas were accepted as being not only right but scientifically true at the time. Long comes to the conclusion that Africa is backwards and the cause of everything evil in nature. His racial slurs were easily accepted at the time because he finds a justification for colonialism rather than slavery, though under these conditions the difference is in the name only. In connection to the text, Conrad’s deception of the colonization and leadership in Heart…

‘Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery,’ a global treaty where the objective is to end slavery and all slave trades. The definition of slavery is ‘a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.’ (Google Dictionary) From cleaning, agriculture, construction, and sex are forms of labor. If sex seemed out of place as a form of labor it is not, for it actually is quite common. Instead of calling it sex slavery or sex labor it is referred to…

concept within the theory of nationalism that was conceived of at the end of the 19th century and remains to be a vital component in a variety of ways pertaining to Africa. Pan-Africanism was a tool in the struggle against colonialism utilized by at first, members of the African Diaspora and later by people and groups within Africa in their struggle for independence. The ability of the African people to unify was seen as integral in their efforts to resist European domination and the ability…

It was an Igbo village - what is now known as modern day Nigeria - was the place that Olaudah Equiano called home. The young 11-year-old boy lived a simple life amongst his village people with his family. He discusses his tribe being a very hardworking, self-sufficient and happy one. They were people…

Women didn’t had any rights whatsoever unlike men who had the right of freedom of speech, the right to vote and freedom of press but the women got nothing in return not even being able to work and no in the modern day women are still struggling to get pay the same wage men and women of color are fighting towards getting pay the same wage as white women do in America. It was Sojourner Truth, a free slave women who didn’t gained her freedom after the emancipation…