Southern Africa

during the 1886 Congress of Berlin. It is important to note that before the 19th century, the conflict in Sudan was between the Arab north and the African south. Britain implemented the divide and rule policy that was used in many colonized regions of Africa. This policy was created to generate distrust and conflict amongst the colonized and not towards the colonizers (Lobban 2010). Ayers discusses the long lasting effects of colonialism and how this system was a catalyst to recent divisions in…

and neglected tropical diseases. It suggests that in order to combat the big three, we must first target the multitude of tropical diseases. It highlights the geographic and epidemiologic overlap of the big three most predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper discusses the different relationships between the diseases and infections and what occurs as a result of the overlap. It is explained how additional infections can severely worsen the effects of HIV and increase the chance of mother-…

is when a group leader would sing a part of a song or phrase and the group would respond with the next part of the song. Call and response has clear roots in gospel music as well as other forms of music where its roots can be traced back to Africa. In Africa music also helped coordinate work. Africans would sing their spirituals while at work using methods like call and response over time and with the influence of other forms of music Gospel was born. “The gospel songs created by slaves used…

newly established colonies and the indigenous people. The earliest Atlantic slave trades are dated to the 15th century, when the first major European world powers the Portuguese and Spanish empires that began with the transportation of slaves from Africa to America for cheaper and easier controllable labors. The slave trade culminated during the 18th century with millions of Africans being shipped as the modern European naval powers Britain and France entered the slave trade.1 This research…

survival. These stories are retold with a strong individualistic point of view. South Africa is an individualistic culture but America’s individualistic culture is much stronger. I believe it is evident in the retelling of these stories. Yoruba Legends of southern Nigeria by M. I. Ogumefu, attempts to explain the mysteries of nature. Ogumefu is from London, an individualistic culture. Nigeria is in western Africa, which is a collective culture. The author…

The most common and dangerous stereotype that Africa possesses, is that of tribal attitudes and actions. Often, people believe that Africans, above all other ethnic individuals, are unhealthily attached to the tenets of their tribe. One might even be supported in this thought when observing the way African migrants and diasporas act within their new environment. However, through this paper, I decided to explore how those of the African diaspora come to their identity. Due to the connection…

America vs. Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is mostly made up of what the Mwanamutapta Empire captured (Logan npg). Before researching Zimbabwe, my ethnocentrism made it seem like it was an awful dictatorship disaster just waiting to happen, but learning more about it I realized that Zimbabweans and Americans are very similar yet very different. When thinking of the seven elements of culture, America and Zimbabwe are different in their social organization but are somewhat similar when it comes to their…

The term Pan African Orogen was used to describe the structural differentiation of Africa into cratons and mobile belts during the Neoproterozoic to earliest Paleozoic time (Kennedy, 1964). However, Kröner (1984) reformulate the term Pan-African to describe the tectonic, magmatic, and metamorphic activity of Neoproterozoic to earliest Paleozoic age throughout the Gondwanaland and in many parts of Laurasia. East Africa orogen (EAO) was formed by the closuring of Mozambique Ocean during the…

traders. From there, the African traders would assemble slaves for resale and send them again to European or colonial slave traders or ship captains. From then on, they would be forced aboard the ships and sold again to colonial slave merchants or southern planters. That is only if they survived the journey to the Americas. The crossing from West…

blacks, and reds. The mass majority of the colors are yellow numbering over 500 million which reside in eastern Asia. Browns come in second with 450 million spreading across the Pacific Ocean westward across southern Asia and northern Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. The blacks in Centre Africa south of Sahara desert rounding up to 150 million. Last but not least are the red skins “Indians” which are located south of the Rio Grande in Latin America totaling…