4B-10 Topics In Cultural Studies Africa and Westernization Kendra Harris October 28‚ 2012 American Intercontinental University Africa was fist modernized by the Arabs‚ who first settled in North Africa; whereas West Africa is where Islam was introduced and the transformation of culture and civilization started in the region before the Europeans imposed their ways of culture and civilization on Africa (science.jrank.org). East Africa civilizations had already had interactions
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Before embarking on my journey through my ideas of Africa‚ I viewed Africa in a stereotypical way. Tribal communities separated by civil war‚ but I now know that Africa is much more than my once silly assumptions. Africa was a cultural rich continent with diverse traditions and beliefs. However‚ many of this changed when the colonization of Africa took place during the early 20th century. I viewed Africa as a barren Savannah with many untamed animals living almost adjacent to these small tribal
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Africa has long been the target of an unfathomable amount of stereotyping. People often perceive it as an impoverished continent suffering from decades of severe conflicts‚ diseases‚ and environmental problems. These widespread negative public images of Africa stem from common social ideas as well as our life experiences and beliefs. John Iliffe (one of the preeminent historians of Africa in the twentieth century)‚ described Africa as an abandoned and inhospitable place. His inaccurate views about
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South Africa Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Reason for your selection 5 Country Background 6 Environmental Analysis 9 PESTLE Analysis 9 Political 9 Economic 10 Social 12 Technology 13 Environment 14 Balance of payment 15 Short History 15 Forecast and rationale 16 Trade Balance 19 Trade Agreements 19 History 20 Forecasts and rationale 23 Exchange rate policy 23 Forecasts and rationale 24 Growth rate of the economy 25 Short history
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Section 1: A Scramble For Africa • European nations needed to fuel industrial production • Competed for new markets for goods and took huge interest in Africa • Imperialism- Seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country o Occurred throughout most of Africa o Europe came in and dominated • Mid 1800’s Africans divided into ethnic and linguistic groups • Some converted to Islam and Christianity • Most kept traditions and religion • For 400 years
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West Africa‚ a striving center of trade and commerce was born in the Post Classical world. The society was morphed by the way people traded. Between 600 and 1450‚ West Africa went from a society dominated by the beliefs of Animism and trading with east to one in which Islam influenced their culture and traded with the dar-al-Islam. The dominance of their own culture and its influence on their religion‚ and the production of bananas‚ however‚ remained constant. Before the introduction of Islam
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South Africa In 1652‚ Dutch traders founded the city of Cape Town‚ establishing a stopover point on the spice route at the southern tip of what is now South Africa. The British seized the Cape of Good Hope in 1806. In 1867‚ diamonds were discovered in South Africa‚ and in 1886‚ gold initiated immigration and wealth‚ further subduing the native inhabitants. The Boers unsuccessfully attempted to resist British control with the Boer War. Under the Union of South Africa beginning in 1910
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perspective. The colonization of Africa has a long history‚ and can be explained as being set in motion as early as 200 AD‚ with the migration of Bantu speaking Africans from central Africa to the south of Africa due to the agricultural boom and overpopulation of tribes‚ known as one of the largest human migrations in history (ref). Following the migration of the Bantu language group was the spread of Islam from 750 – 1500 AD‚ which was first accepted in West Africa by the Dya’ogo Dynasty. Following
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in the North different from the South Life in the North was different from the South. They both used different transportation sometimes. They also used different society most of the time so they wouldn’t be the same. They used nothing even close together with economy because they usually always used it at different times. So this is how the North is different from the South. Transportation was kinda hard for them in the North but kinda easy in the South. They only had trains in the North because
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