West Africa

from Africa have originated for thousands of years, and were used used to show important cultural information, for example festivals or funerals . The majority of their textiles was made using cotton, a popular material used to make cloth, which creates either a white or brown background colour. The four main types of cloth Africans…

Americans during their lifetime would never travel to africa to see for themselves that what the media is portraying is totally one sided. In the media today, we see African commercials where you can save a dying child for less than a dollar per day. The producer of these commercial normally go to a particular Eastern part of Africa that’s remote and barely associated with the modern world, then shoot their video. Making the continent of Africa appear to be all starving and on the verge of…

embarked and become a regional players. Also, firm’s technology, communication service have also emerged to support the growing economy and firms. This this also strengthened the firms’ abilities to expand their operations beyond Nigeria especially in Africa in the financial, service, telecommunication and entertainment, retail sector(AFDB, 2013; Barbara, Eric, & Collen, 2015). Drawing of internationalisation theory and OLI theory the purpose of this study is to examine the internalisation…

World Civilization II: States of West Africa. 1. The two empires I have chosen to write my paper about is the Ife kingdom and the Oyo kingdom. The reasons I choose these two kingdoms was because these kingdoms were around the same time of each other, even though one may have fallen before the other. I feel that me picking these two each one gives a little story of before and after what happened with Oyo with its fall with the wars they were put in. Each one of these kingdoms can give…

In the 15th century, West Africa was full of problems. Though there were positive sides, there was also negative sides. Doing more research led to learning that the negative sides overthrew the positive sides. Some trades that were involved at this time of period are the Trans-Saharan trade and Transatlantic trade. The difference between these two trades is the Trans-Saharan was for traveling across the Sahara to obtain gold, but the Trans-Atlantic trade was for capturing slaves. These slaves…

The various slave trades in Africa did not have the same effects on the continent. In this paper I will examine three slave trades and explore their specific impact on Africa society. This paper will primarily examine the available historical evidence on what political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic effects each slave trade had on the regional area where they captured Africans. First I will explore the oldest slave trades in Africa, the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades.…

substantially influence the West African societies. The Transatlantic Slave Trade had many effects, both positive and negative, on Western African societies. Most of them, however, were, of course, negative, though it is debatable that the slave trade led to many positive aspects for West African societies. However, the majority of African societies were at a loss, because of the massive population decrease. In fact, millions of Africans were being transported out of Africa, which significantly…

The sub-Saharan is located in Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert. The sub-regions of sub-Saharan consist of Somalia, Dijibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania. The offical federal republic of somila is a country located in the horn of Africa. Ethopia is to the west, Dijibouti to the north east, the gulf of aden to the north, the indian ocean to the east, and kenya to the southeast. Somila's population consist of 10.8 million people, and most of those people are muslims. The offical republic…

political economy of the people of Africa. The paper also examines the salience of Kwame Nkrumah’s call for the United States of Africa and how this call remains relevant today in the continents search for a place in global interdependence and interconnectedness. Kwame Nkrumah was president of Ghana in 1957 but overthrown by coupe de tat in 1966. His major preoccupation was for Africa to take its own hands (west). To show his commitment to the union government of Africa, he declared on the day…

Did you know one of the only ships that made it back to Africa was the Amistad? The Atlantic Slave Trade was an exchange of people who were captured from West Africa, to be exchanged for goods or to do hard labor for others. The Atlantic Slave Trade took place in some Parts of West Africa, Europe, and America. It took place between 1500-1900. Some of the people that are the most involved are slaves, Portuguese, slave traders, merchants, and sailors. The slaves were important during the Atlantic…