West Africa

and, classless society), as well as the Leadership Code (intended to prevent corruption by ensuring that those in power could not exploit their power in any way – under Nyerere’s rule, Tanzania was considered one of the least corrupt countries in Africa). While Nyerere had noble ideals and great ambition for making Tanzania independent and self-reliant, he also imposed a one-party system and ruled as an authoritarian. However, later, when it was apparent that African Socialism as applied in…

Introduction Slavery in America dates back to 1619 when the first African slaves were brought to North Africa to assist in cultivation of the profitable crops. When Europeans colonized North America, the region had huge lands that required labor for productivity. The first African slaves were brought by the Dutch and proved to be very industrious. As a result, slavery was widely embraced in all American colonies. The invention of cotton gin in the 18th century hardened the key role that slaves…

Sierra Leone, which means “Lion Mountains”, is a very diverse country located on the west coast of Africa. Sierra Leone is impressively known for the country’s wealth in diamonds, also known as “blood diamonds” because of the blood that is shed to get these diamonds. The country is home to approximately 6.3 million people. Although English is the country’s official language, the languages of Temne, Mende, and Krio are also spoken. Sierra Leone’s inhabitant history, first contact with the…

for the issued was the result of the European colonizing everything that they have come encounter with until the 20th century. From the old age of imperialism, the discovery of America during the new imperialism was responsible for the colonizing of Africa, and Asia. The engraving that was created by Theodor Galle has displayed the encounter…

situated. Godwin was shocked to find that near the drinking water source there was a huge mining plant. There he saw people (gangs of people) mining along with foreign participation. He explains this as a classical example of tragedies of mining in Africa. Godwin offered to show me photographs of two rivers of Ghana River Ankobra and River Pra ten years ago and two years ago to show extensively the rivers have been damaged by mining activities. He mentioned these mining to be illegal and…

nations, individually connected and powered by the personal connections with one another. These continents that make up the earth all possess something special to offer up to all other nations. Africa is one such continent that offers a great deal of prosperous goods to this world. Some things that Africa offers include a wide collection of religions, languages, animals, and environmental resources that are readily available for the world to benefit from. The European people saw this continent…

should be organic and local. In result, poor African countries experience hunger and worsening of the agriculture infrastructure because most Western countries lost their interest to invest the agricultural systems of developing countries. While in the West food becomes more and more exquisite, poor countries become deprived of the most basic food products, such as rice, wheat, and others. Paarlberg emphasizes that helping developing countries is no more a trend today and the world market is…

As a justification for this brutal form of labor the colonist needed something that made African American slaves seem less than human. Eric Foner explains “Unlike in Africa, slaves in the America who became free always carried with them in their skin color the mark of bondage—a visible sign of being considered unworthy for incorporation as equals into free society.” As the natives in the south of George and California became involved in the slave trade by abandoning some of their own to…

In the Fifteenth Century, Portuguese explorers had begun to colonize the Coast of West Africa. Within the span of a few short decades, the explorers began to round up African natives and selling them into slavery. This would eventually evolve into the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, where over 12.5 million Africans would be torn from their loved ones and sold into slavery. Without all these people, the Coast of West Africa was never again going to be the same. Whole tribes began disappearing, and…

This essay addresses the intersection between religion and race in the context of Brazil. It situates Brazil within the larger context of Latin America, particularly in respect to the common colonial background. The conquest of Latin America by the Portuguese and the Spanish empires took place in a context in which religion, economics, and politics were intertwined. Luis Rivera-Pagan has demonstrated how the conquest necessitated a legitimizing theological language to be possible. On the other…