West Africa

major points when dealing with this topic. The separation of Africans from their home country is where it all began. To be able to have slaves in the New World as well as various other countries, the Europeans had to first get the Africans out of Africa. Most of the…

Africa was a very diverse continent that had many different kingdoms including The Kingdom of Ghana, The Kingdom of Mali, lastly The Kingdom of Songhai. One of the main kingdoms was the Kingdom of Mali. Ghana was the ruling kingdom for hundreds of years but due to losing in wars it collapsed during the 1100s. Once it collapsed The Kingdom of Mali rose to power. During the middle of the 1200s Mali was established by Sundiata Keita. Sandiata won or defeated Ghana and captured its capital in 1240.…

the definition of Colonialism that can be found online if the reader googles colonialism. What is not mentioned in the definition is how this term systematically unbalanced, the world and created a plethora of turmoil and greed. The colonization of Africa was not an easy feat, the European colonizers often refused to engage in fair and equal trade with African royalty. However, the advanced weaponry Europeans wielded convinced the natives of the land they were superior. In the late 19th and…

Dubois was insinuating that the only reason Europe is the superpower that it is, is because it colonized majority of Africa and exploited their resources. In the article by Walter Rodney, he also talked about Europe taking over parts of Africa and exploiting their resources. Dubois proceeded to name four European countries and under them wrote paragraphs of how they exploited Africa. He called them the…

between the United States and Africa”. Every year since 2010, about 100 young African leaders are selected through a rigorous and competitive process by US embassies across the African continent to participate in a six weeks’ leadership program in the US “in one of the three key issues 1) civic leadership 2) entrepreneurship and business 3) public management and public policy” (USAID,2016). This event has set the pace of what it entails to be a young leader in Africa and reshaped the course of…

James Ferguson with Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order and John and Jean Comaroff with Ethnicity, Inc. use an African-centered anthropological approach in order to conceptualize politics of “belonging” in the neoliberal global order. Both examine identity politics centered around inclusion and exclusion in light of transforming citizenships and sovereignties, and advocate for a re-assessment of taken-for-granted assumptions utilized by the discipline. Ferguson and the Comaroffs…

5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all of long-distance global migrations. The first Africans forced to work in the New World left from Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, not from Africa. The first slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas probably sailed in 1526. The volume of slaves carried off from Africa reached thirty thousand per year in the…

country in West Africa founded, established, and controlled by citizens of the United States and ex-Caribbean slaves a colony for former African American slaves and their free black descendants.It was established in 1821 even though they didn’t declare independence until July 26, 1847. The United States finally accepted and Liberia gained independence on February 5, 1862. Liberia was also the first nation to gain its independence, although it wasn’t the only independent state in Africa at the…

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…

Europe and Africa via the Mediterranean, but the slave trade didn’t begin until the late 1400s with the Portuguese colonies in west Africa and Spanish settlement of the Americas. Due to the labor intensive upkeep with the sugar cane, tobacco and cotton plantation there was a surge in the need for slaves who can keep up with it. To meet the massive demands for the labor, the Europeans looked to Africa, thus how their migration to the new world was forced as they brought slaves from Africa there.…