Pan Africanism/ Global Connections
An approach to African studies will be summarized within this essay. Each chapter encompasses a detailed explanation from African cultures to economical struggles and much more. These 10 chapters will include a brief introduction and summary of African societies, Power, Descent from the same ancestor, Contracting an alliance, Government, Repetitive and dynamic models, Inequality, Dependence relations, Association, and Exchange of Goods. Chapter 1
This chapter introduces the audience into an overall summary of African relationships and explains to us the social horizons of the interaction amongst the people. An area called the “ Black Africa” separates and divides between two cultural worlds. Amongst this “Black Africa” region, we can conclude that a cultural community exists. The concept of global societies explains to us the state of society in the age of globalization. This “Global Society” contains both men and women, and is passed on to many generations, from learning the cultural ways ancestors have passed down, to an overall guide of how to live an everyday life until one dies. It is proven that relationships can exists between the members of two different societies. There are Seven institutionalized societal relations and they are Kinship, Alliance, Government, Inequality and Equality, Feudality, Association, and Exchange of Goods. These roles are a guide of a superiority and inferiority statuses. Chapter 2
This chapter opens into the topic of “Power.” Power is an important key factor for an individual or within a group. People with power has an advantage of having a better life than others, to have power is also a key to enjoying the better things in life and survival. There is such a thing as “power over nature, oneself and others within production; agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts, industry, etc…” (Aborisade 34). With power, one can produce an influential affect within a group or
Cited: Aborisade. Pan Africanism/ Global Connections. n.d.