West Africa

another culture to tell a complex, realistic narrative about the people they are trying to represent? Too often, the Western world has a disproportionate amount of influence over the narratives of other cultures, causing stories about cultures in Africa and the Eastern world to be overflowing with stereotypes, and offensive portrayals of the people who live there. Western story tellers have the tendency to inaccurately depict foreign cultures to make them fit their own simplified perception of…

frequencies of the sickle gene cell (p. 546). The Mande people moved in large numbers and seemed to introduce the particular gene into parts of Africa (Livingstone, 1958, p. 547). This large-scale migration led to higher frequencies of the sickle cell traits, which lends evidence about the HbS allele frequency variation. The linguistic evidence supports the West African HbS allele frequency variation because the migration pattern shows the spread of the selective advantage of the sickle cell…

1. Buganda Agreement of 1900 was a collaborative agreement between the British administration and the Buganda chief. The agreement consisted of the Buganda people paying taxes to the administrative heads residing in their lands, while the social status quo of the Buganda people stayed intact. Hierarchy of rule did not change. This all happened juxtapose to Harry Johnson establishing a system of land tenure 2. Githaka was the gathering of land owned Mbari. Mbari was a clan of elites and their…

Then they would take the slaves in cargo ships to their “new home” across the Atlantic Ocean to sell them in the West Indies and North America. They would take the slaves on the 'Middle Passage' across the Atlantic to sell in the West Indies and North America. Finally, they would load the ships up with rum and sugar and sail back to New England. This is all demonstrated in Rodney’s triangular trade model (Rodney, 1972). One…

communication. Mesoamerica, West Africa, and Japan experienced benefits and drawbacks from cultural and economic isolation. Mesoamerica faced social and economic benefits and drawbacks from being isolated. Mesoamerica was a region in the Americas, extending from central Mexico to northern Costa Rica. Because it was on the America’s, Mesoamerica couldn’t benefit from Eurasia’s trade and communications. The Mayans of the Yucatan peninsula lived with oceans on their east, north, and west sides,…

The Middle Passage How is Africa characterized before Europeans began the slave trade? Africa was an up and coming country prior to slave trade. Tribes and villages were growing and gaining power. Africa was also an active trader with China and other countries. Many kingdoms were growing and flourishing in Africa because of the trans-oceanic trade. Africa did not have religious diversity. There was not many major centralised states that existed, and many people lived in societies where there…

As late as 1870, only 10% of Africa was under European control, but this changed when King Leopold came in and the “Scramble for Africa” started. The European nations realized that Africa was filled with incredible natural resources and this created competition between the European powers. The European nations divided up Africa by claim at the Berlin Conference. The nations then went on to imperialize their parts of Africa and it would not have been possible for them without the inventions that…

years studying ancient West African religion origins and how it is lived out. West African religion is based upon several Gods rather than one. African mythology is based on the supernatural beings who influence human life. Spirits and ancestors also play a large role in West African mythology. African mythology believes the spirits are around and present throughout the earth. The trees, animal or any creation can be identified as a form of higher power and spirit in West African mythology. This…

The Maasai, Tuareg, and Bambuti are all tribes in Africa. The Maasai people are the original settlers of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The Tuareg are a pastoralist society in North and West Africa. The Bambuti live primarily in the congo Basin and Ituri Forest. It is believed that all humans have migrated from Africa. Africa is the only continent with fossil evidence of human beings. Most scientists believe humans first appeared in Africa, then spread to the rest of the world. The Bantu…

contact with dark Africans south of the Sahara and who exchanged little quantities of dark slaves. Muslim Arabs extended this trans-Saharan slave exchange, purchasing or seizing expanding quantities of dark Africans in West Africa, driving them over the Sahara, and offering them in North Africa. From that point, a large portion of these slaves were sent out to distant Asian goals, for example, the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia (in present-day Turkey), Arabia, Persia (show day Iran), and India.…