Zulu

Pickers. Thankfully the worst examples of “whitey’s” hold over all sports have seemingly come to pass. There once was a time when, in order to draw in white crowds, African-American baseball players would play in grass skirts and warpaint under the name Zulu Cannibal Giants. Resembling the Giants in their mixture of sports and comedy, soon later a team formed known as the Ethiopian…

necessarily in the best conditions, but their situation was an attempt to try and make them feel more comfortable despite the influx of riots and diseases that were present. The Zulu, which also inhabited the lands on the southern parts of Africa were not met in the same tones that they later did with the Boer settlers. The Zulu war of 1879 earned them a spot as one of the esteemed martial races with the way that they fought. However, they were met in the field with the brutal force of Gatling…

The first time South Africa was colonized was in 1652 by the Dutch for its many raw materials and precious metals like gold; this colony was first fully established by the Dutch-East-India trading company. Over time the Dutch empire weakened and fell leaving the precious country open for the taking, and the English took advantage of this opportunity. In 1899, the English first colonized the South African ports and gold mines; this was a very important colony at the time since many of the…

26. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: 26.1 Introduction: Biklen (2007) argues that the research methodology is a method or the steps, which the researcher proposes in order to conduct the research. This chapter will focus on research methodology which was used in the study and it will cover the research design, population and sampling techniques. The imperativeness of these research techniques was design to evaluates and analysis the available avenues. The research methodology will contain the following…

1. . The three cultural zones are the Arabic zone in the north, the Sabel zone, and sub-Saharan Africa. The Arabic zone includes the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Sahel zone includes the areas dominated by the vast Sahara Desert, and sub-Saharan Africa is the rest of the continent south of the Sahara Desert. The Kingdom of Ghana is the earliest known kingdom in Africa. King Shaka was a powerful military leader who conquered many tribes throughout South Africa. Africa’s…

a few hours and backed up with a phone call. Not too often is nonverbal communication or emoticons used within the Department of Defense, I have seen words all capitalized which mean Yelling. Acronyms are widly used such as “BZ” which means Bravo Zulu or good…

As el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (better known as Malcolm X) once said, “The most disrespected woman in America, is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the Black woman.” Although this has always been a universal truth to Black women, it was groundbreaking to say in the time of el-Shabazz, and is still quite revolutionary to admit to today. Nevertheless, the statement still holds true without much effort to reverse it on…

This as well as DJing and rap were spreading all across New York when Afrika Bambaataa creates Universal Zulu Nation. He describes it as having the four elements of hip hop culture, which he believes, are DJing, break dancing, graffiti, and MCing. Meanwhile, DJ Grand Wizard Theodore unknowingly invents “scratching” which is when the DJ puts pressure on the…

at The Bacchanal bar in Berkeley, California. The author, born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey, changed her name in 1971 to Ntozake Shange (which means, “She who comes with her own things” and “She who walks with lions” in Xhosa, the Zulu language). Shortly afterward, an artistic…

NTPC (2014). 2.3.4. BENEFITS OF USING FLY ASH IN CONCRETE 2.3.4.1. WORKABILITY OF THE CONCRETE Fly ash particles are spherical in shape with high fineness and low carbon content this reduces the quantity of water required for a given slump (Zulu, 2014). This means that a mix with Portland cement would have a higher water content of the same workability compared to the fly ash mix. It is estimated that each 10% of fly ash added to a mix reduces the water content by 3%, this is dependent on…