West Africa

Nearly 30% of the world’s gold comes from Africa, though a lot of it was mined and traded by ancient African kingdoms. Both the kingdom of Benin and the Swahili Coast rose to power due to inter-continental trading, they both declined and then eventually collapsed with decreased trading and conquering by Europeans. The kingdom of Benin started in the 900s CE when the Edo people settled in the West African rainforests. By 1400, the kingdom had gained a lot of wealth and power through trade with…

of the time period of 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean was used in ways that undeniably formed its history. It was no more to be just seen as a huge waterway, however rather as a path that joined different gatherings of individuals. From Europe and Africa to America, the Ocean was secured with many countries whom were attempting to survive the Ice Age. The need to investigate and explore what else was out there for them prompt a progression of occasions that nobody could have envisioned were to…

it is not because I am from Africa, but because western political, social, environmental and economic policies mainly dictated by the United State and Great Britain from the beginning and ending of the cold war led to the reason why Africa is undeveloped today. Furthermore, Africa is underdeveloped today as the result of Western Control, Neocolonialism, Corruption and the process that leads to western aid approval and its mismanagement The underdevelopment of Africa is the result of Western…

Trans-Saharan slave trades were key players in the African Diaspora. Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought Western Africans across the Western hemisphere, while the Trans-Saharan slave trade moved Africans across the Sahara Desert to sub-Saharan locations within Africa. As a result, Africans were dispersed among locations where there was a need to grow settlements and maintain profitable agricultural practices. Shortly thereafter,…

indigenous economic activities before the arrival of the Europeans. Whiles the section colonialGold Coast also traces the reasons for European incursion in the Gold Coast and the economic reasons for the transportation of masses of people out of Africa to various parts of Europe and the New world. The abolishing of slave trade and its…

Why Ebola is so Dangerous Ebola outbreaks started in West Africa and is the world’s deadliest outbreak to date. Ebola is an illness with symptoms like a fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, and sore throat. People can get infected by coming into close contact with infected animals or other people as well. To avoid getting infected with this virus don’t get in contact with bodily fluids also don’t get in contact with dead victims because you can be more at risk. How the virus spreads is it…

their own business. A significant number began moving to the West, to become cowboys or settlers. However, they made laws against this. So a few went back to Africa. But the largest number of slaves stayed…

Black English, including the American slave trade, plantation life, the creole influence, and Harlem’s Jive talk. Also, it discusses the variety of English on White American speech and literature, particularly in the south. 300 hundred years ago west Africa society interfered in the slave trade. The traffic of their lives brought English to their tribes. British and American slavers trading upriver introduced the English language from the middlemen from whom they bought the slaves from.…

West African musical influences can be found throughout the rest of Africa and across the globe. These influences can be found throughout various genres of music, including jazz, blues, and electronic music. A modern example I discovered that demonstrates West African musical styles was M83’s Midnight City, an electronic song. Firstly, and prominently featured throughout the song is the synth pattern, or ostinato that is repeated through a large majority of the song. It is a simple four note…

First, Carney shows a list of diverse plants domesticated in Africa before the Columbian Exchange to state that Africa alone before the Columbian Exchange was a continent full of many food crops in the savanna, tropical region and the coast. Then, Carney focuses on a list of African plants introduced into the Americas through the Atlantic…