West Africa

developed. Slave trade was at it 's best in Bristol between 1730 and 1745 making it the second largest city in England after London. The city traded with all countries, France, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and most importantly North Africa. The location of the port in the South West of England on the River Avon had made it a prime location for marine trade for many centuries. Control of all trade was originally dominated by the Royal African Company. However, in 1698, an organization of merchants in…

survival. These stories are retold with a strong individualistic point of view. South Africa is an individualistic culture but America’s individualistic culture is much stronger. I believe it is evident in the retelling of these stories. Yoruba Legends of southern Nigeria by M. I. Ogumefu, attempts to explain the mysteries of nature. Ogumefu is from London, an individualistic culture. Nigeria is in western Africa, which is a collective culture. The author…

theme when facing a difficult task. “Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali” is a traditional legendary epic by an unknown author. It is about the 13th-century West African leader Sundiata Keita. “The Quarry” is a short story by Alan Paton. It is about Johnny Day, a 12-year-old boy, who climbed the face of an abandoned quarry in a coastal city in South Africa. Both stories show the theme of determination through the characters’ actions.…

slaves and free Blacks from the United States. Several factors led to the initial support of colonization in this nation and clergy, merchants, and slaveholder’s established the national organization to send over four-thousand Blacks to the West Coast of Africa. In this essay I will delve into the economic, social, and political reasons for colonization in Liberia. Support for colonization and the desire to remove freed slaves and free Blacks emerged within the institution of enslavement. In…

The article explains how people don’t understand that slavery is still a huge problem in the world and has never stopped. There are ten of thousands of people that have been trapped in different forms of slavery. The fist kind of slavery most common is labor slavery. There is 78% of the people in slavery that are forced to do the farming, ranching, logging, mining, fishing, and brick making. The next most popular is child slavery. This means that 26% of slaves are children. Now for the last one…

of May to October. While, the wet season which, is hot and rainy is during the months of November to April. Depending on where you are in Madagascar also plays a role in the climate. Each Region, the Highlands, The South, The North, The East and The West, have their own distinct climates as well. These climates bring mosquitos to the area so, I would be sure to bring protection against them. Malaria is a risk throughout the year and is highest on the coast. Malarial mosquitos are most active at…

In the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel is written to answer a question posed by a New Guinea man named Yali. Yali’s question was “Why is it that you whites people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” 1 (GGS page 14). Basicly this question in asking why the white Europeans able to have all the cargo1 (What is Cargo) when blacks from New Guinea did not make or have much cargo. Diamond writes…

to European or colonial slave traders or ship captains. From then on, they would be forced aboard the ships and sold again to colonial slave merchants or southern planters. That is only if they survived the journey to the Americas. The crossing from West…

In West Africa once known as the Gold Coast, high-ranking officials within the courts of Akan chiefs carry the gold-covered staffs like this one. The Akan peoples place an enormous emphasis on speech; they are a society that originally had no written tradition. Like most kingdoms spoken word, in the form of stories, is the repository of Akan custom and values, and a complete of proverbial lore, combined with an insightful way of describing it. The staff is considered the mark of intellect of…

Adults within the society consciously and unconsciously convey their preferences, views and values to their children. Home is regarded as the first and best environment where morality and moral values are passed on. But in most Africa societies, there is a vulnerability that hampers parent-child intimacy in educating the child what is socially accepted and treated as a norm. The absence of parents or guardians as role models in child upbringing often resulted in children being…