Southern Africa

In the documentary, Stealing Africa Christopher Gulbrandsen started by showing a really high class neighbor with wealthy people having a nice time party located in Zambia, a located in Southern part of Africa and after a few minutes Zambia is a country blessed with great natural resources to help it blossom in the global economy, but because of exploitation due to the fact that multinational corporations are taking advantage of Zambia natural resources for their own selfish reasons. Zambia…

Fundamentally, two questions underscore the argument: What does it mean to be African and how does a postcolonial modern Africa operate in terms of authentic and indigenous governance? The differing views on the…

My first stop on my trip was the city-state known as Axum in Eastern Africa. Axum is a very influential market city and is extremely wealthy. It’s location is essential to it’s prosperity because it is positioned near African Mediterranean and Asian trade networks. While I was there I saw that the kingdom and their people traded (Page 2 ,Axum line 12)“ivory, gold, glass, and agricultural and metal goods for textiles, spices, oils, and dyes from the Roman Empire, Egypt, Arabia, and India.” While…

In the past, women in Africa have held a variety of statuses across the continent. Between the years 1500 and 1800 some were in high positions of power while others were forced into slavery and many others were somewhere in between. By looking at the different situations we can see that no matter what position a women was in, far too often she was still regarded as less of a person just because of her sex. Nzinga of Angola was a women living during the late 15th and 16th centuries. She was in…

in certain countries such as Africa. Geopolitics is also the reason why some rulers go to war with other countries and try to take their land. For example, Napoleon decided to invade Russia so he could control India, which was under British rule. One of the main causes for imperialism was that the British had a financial interest in Africa and the Suez Canal. Geopolitics significantly influenced Napoleon’s conquest of Russia to gain India and Imperialism in Africa. The French and Russians…

Africans, “a single story of catastrophe.” As she spent more time in the U.S., she began to understand her roommate’s response to her. If the only things she knew about Africa came from popular images, she too would believe that it was simply a place of natural beauty but with lots of human suffering. This single story of Africa can be seen in Western literature, where writers like John Locke and Rudyard Kipling reinforced the image of Africans as uncivilized beasts. Adichie herself was…

Haiti is a Caribbean country that is found in the island of Hispaniola. It has a population of 10.6 million people. Its main languages are French and Creole. The Haitian Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1804. The main religions found in Haiti are Voodoo and Roman Catholicism. Voodoo is a religion that is a modified form of Catholicism and they worshipped the black God. It has combinations of African beliefs with Catholicism. A few people practice both religions. People referred to…

The voyages of Africa was to get around the continent of Africa, to reach the India the eastern part of Asia in order to get spices, silk, and other fine goods. Stories were told by ancient Egypt and Phoenicia that say the sailed to Africa and made it 2,600 years ago (Scheller, 25). It was to say that Arabs were the only ones really getting things from Asia. There was always two ways to get good to Europe from Asia. Caravan, by foot was a way to get there which involved camels carrying things on…

has been slavery this includes slavery within Africa. Being a slave inside of Africa was very different compared to being a slave outside of Africa. The methods through which the slaves were acquired through raiding, pawning, tribute, and prisoners of war. There were two primary forms of slavery routes within African slavery. There was the trade between West and North Africa; as well as slavery between East, Central, and Southern slavery. Western Africa was often a location for trade because of…

Up until now it has been believed that only one species of giraffe existed. Due to recent studies about the genetic makeup of giraffes across the wild in Africa, four different types giraffe have been discovered. Scientists from Senckenberg and the Giraffe Conservation Foundation are to thank for the discovery that leads to an optimistic view on the endangered species' chance of survival. This article is going to cover the recent evolution of information about giraffes and what the new…