Sub-Saharan Africa

Throughout Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred there are a lot racial contexts that revolve around time traveling. In the novel, readers are introduced to a black woman, specifically African-American by the name of Dana who has a white husband named Kevin. Within the story, Dana time travels and she finds herself retracing her ancestral roots and background through slavery. Realizing that she is in the 1800s, she begins to connect the dots every time she passes out and goes back in time. She tries to…

“Desiree’s Baby” is a literal fiction short story by Kate Chopin that takes place in Antebellum Louisiana. A young girl by the name of Desiree is abandoned who was discovered. Armand Aubigny was the one who found desiree and after that they fell in love and had a baby. The people sense that the baby is different time goes by, they realize the baby skin color is of African descent. Armand thinks Desiree is part black, but she doesn’t accept the statement. Desiree takes the baby and leaves to the…

Afrofuturism is an idea that situates concepts of spirituality and Afrocentrism in a literary setting. This literary setting usually has a scientific undertone. It is an idea that destabilizes the unfavorable lens of racial bias through which the African-American is viewed. It aims to provide solutions through literary means to the problems faced by blacks in a Western world. Afrofuturism can be expressed through various art forms. One very innovative mode of expressing afrofuturism is through…

to be a Black man in America, the story starts at his enslavement. The Black man has been dehumanized since the beginning of his trip from the shores of Africa to his time spent on the grasslands of America. The Atlantic Slave Trade, which took place between the 14th and 19th centuries was the first time Europeans encountered the continent of Africa and Africans. Many of the American…

Sexual Violence and Its Impact On the Black Community Sexual violence is a largely overlooked issue within the black community affecting an intolerable amount of young black girls. Black Women’s Blueprint, an organization that endorses the global equality of Black women conducted a study in which they found that “Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18”. Black girls who experience sexual abuse choose to keep silent about…

with Du Bois’ observations, one must first delve into the position slaves were put in upon landing in this country. From the beginning, slave traders and slave owners understood that the immense history and culture that the slaves had left behind in Africa had bestowed them with an individual worth not entirely conducive to servitude. The first step that was necessary to developing a functional slave system in the United States was to squander this history in favor of one more fitting of their…

provinces had Chiefs and elders to run government. Olaudah father was one of the chiefs in the village. So growing up as a child was good. Until he was kidnapped at the age of eleven along with his sister. After being kidnapped he was hiked across part of Africa and then was loaded onto a ship. While travelling to Barbados he and his countrymen were subjected to many horrors anyone could hardly imagine. He was taken from his African home and thrown into a western world which was completely…

The Transcendence of the Silhouette The Death of the Last Black Man in The Whole Entire World, a play by Suzan-Lori Parks, explores the intricacies of race in a nonlinear, disjoint, and unconventional manner. The conjunction of precise characters and language, though seemingly haphazard, signify in the perpetuation of racism and the history of African American subjugation. The first scene in the story places the audience in the middle of a disconcerting image. In this scene, Park presents a…

Etheridge Knight’s poem “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” depicts a disturbing era in American history and unjust system for prisoners in a time where discrimination ran deep. The mid 1900’s was the time when Black artists sought a voice. This quest, combined with the prison rights movement, focused on civil rights and an end to unethical practices. Prison laws and conditions in American were a disaster and the people needed a voice to reveal the…

Currently, there is a sub-Saharan region, called the meningitis belt, which is responsible for most of the cases of meningitis (Epidemiology 2012). This region of the world not only experiences a high rate of infections, but also experiences cycles of infection that range from eight…