West Africa

information of how Domingos Alvares adapted socially from being a healer for the community in Brazil. In contrast, Carney used the primary source of a photograph in order to enhance the reader’s visualization on how similar the system of rice where in Africa and in the United States. This is important because Carney is capable of interpreting how Africans innovated the rice system in the United States with a visual image. This primary source tells a visual story that is easily reliable in…

many people to take care of the land and owning many slaves was there solution. Slavery began in Africa where the spread Islam increased slavery by a tremendous amount. Sence Muslims had combined the belief that Muslim prisoners of war could be bought and used as slaves it resulted in about 17 million Africans being brought to the Muslim land of North Africa and South West Asia. When Africa was first discovered by the Portuguese there first priority was trading. They began to only trade for…

It is impossible to watch the nightly news on the television or to browse an online news website without encountering a depressing story about Africa. A pirate leader in Somalia is holding the crew of a Norwegian merchant ship hostage. A traveler has spread Ebola to a new country, opening up an additional thirty million people to infection. A coup attempt failed in an African nation that the majority of Americans can’t place on a map. A famine is sweeping through an east African nation, leaving…

“jungle, Africans live with animals, and that make them have pitch-black skin” (Pryor). Furthermore, “Africa is a jungle where men only, as hunters, know how to kill animals for food for their families, and because they live with animals, they talk and dance like them” (Spears). With thick trees, plants, and brush, Disneyland African jungle river adventure highly amplifies the belief that Africa is a jungle. Disneyland attracts millions of people from different parts of the world annually, and…

CLIMATE CHANGE VS. CLIMATE VARIATION IN WESTERN CAPE The observed trends in average temperatures are evidence for climate changes in the Western Cape region. It is the main wheat production area of South Africa and responsible for almost 40% of the country’s total production. Wheat areas in the Western Cape are mainly rain-fed and the primary use of wheat is for bread making. Swartland is a sub-region of Western Cape and characterized by dry, hot summers and wet, moisty winters which is…

Military about West African Soldiers during the World War Introduction This report will summarise J. Lunn’s main arguments of his article: ‘Les Races Guerrieres’: Racial Preconceptions in the French Military about West African Soldiers during the World War, and how those racial prejudices effected West-African soldiers recruited for the French Army in the Great War. Furthermore, it will contextualise his arguments into the historiography of French and European prejudice against West-African…

The empire on Ghana existed from c. 750-1076. The Ghana empire was located in what is now Southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal which is on the Northwest coast of Africa. The Ghana empire was one of the first empires on the Northwest coast of Africa to rise in that area. Ghana began in the eighth century when there was a little change in the economy. There was an spectacular shift in the economy of the Sahel area. The south area of the Sahara allowed more condense states to…

traded along the East African coast. They were traded as domestic servants that served people in the Middle East, East Africa, and West India. The slave trade stretched from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of India. At first the slaves were traded mainly from northern Europe, but as the numbers dwindled from there, they started taking slaves from the east coast of Africa and the Savannah. The slaves traded along this trade route were mainly women that were used not only as domestic…

Some points that both sources agree on is that the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the America. The Portuguese were searching for gold in Africa, and decades after that, Portuguese sailors gained permission from a local African leader to build a trading outpost and storehouse on Africa's Guinea coast. Africans were either captured in warring raids or kidnapped and taken to the port by African slave traders. There they were…

16th century and lasted until the early 19th century. In the triangle trade, not only did the trade export slaves, it also exported manufactured goods and cash crops between the American colonies, Caribbean, and West Africa. In order to receive slaves, “slave ships… left ports… for West Africa carrying goods such as cloth, guns, ironware and drink that had been made in Britain.”, which they would then trade those goods and receive the slaves. When the slaves were given to the slave ships, most…